Word: cossack
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Dressed in black, with a Cossack hat perched on her blonde head, Corinne had stationed herself in a doorway on Main Street at the hour when Dallas goes to work. There she waited until Brooks Coffman sauntered by, busily talking to a woman companion. Corinne put her hand in her purse, stepped out behind...
With a special open-air concert scheduled in the Lowell House court-yard, following a tour of the Yard, the world-famous Don Cossack chorus makes its debut at the University today...
...There are 330 peasants, 465 workmen, 65 soldiers, 187 women, 870 Party members. There are 53 presidents of collective farms, an 80-year-old scientist, a 19-year-old textile worker, a Cossack writer, an actress. There is Comrade Deputy Olga Leonova, 42, whose official biography begins "Stern and miserable was the childhood of O. F. Leonova." There is Deputy Bach, 82, exiled in 1878, whose record begins, "A. N. Bach has lived a long and beautiful life." There is Alexander Bussy-gin, 32, who was so electrified during the Stakhanov movement that he forged 1,001 crankshafts...
...rope, all got under his skin. The pushing mob didn't satisfy his desire for companionship, and of course, neither did Billy. It was spring, and his fancies had turned to where they usually did at that time of year. As he handed the tickets to the scarlet-clad Cossack at the door, he was complaining to himself, "This is no job for a college man, and why can't the kid's nurse take him, anyway?" He had just decided that he was bored with it all, when he missed Billy...
...careers in the history of music. But the life of success that he looks back upon in the pastoral elegance of Riond Bosson was won with bitter years of discouragement and struggle. The son of a small-town Polish farm administrator, he felt as a child the knouts of Cossack riding whips, saw his father thrown into prison as a revolutionist against the Tsars. No infant prodigy, he worked until he was nearly 30 before attracting any public notice as a pianist. His early studies at the Warsaw Conservatory met with little encouragement. Only the trombone teacher, with whom...