Word: cossack
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...Peiping to the north last week the Soviet Embassy called for extra guards as protection from one of the most colorful characters in the Far East: onetime Cossack Ataman General Grigoriy Semenov. With the temperament and figure of an old time Greek wrestler, he has made a good living as head of a band of White Russian bravos who, according to rumor, have been doing Japan's dirty work for years in Manchukuo. In 1929 he collected $700,000 in Imperial Russian funds from the Yokohama Specie Bank. Fortnight ago he was reported responsible for a raid...
...assertions: that Japanese are poor pilots, Chinese good; that the methodical Germans are best at bombing, refusing to be drawn out of formation under attack like the hot-headed Italians. Russians are said to be careless about such perfunctory details as keeping gas tanks full, but have a wild Cossack flair for aerial dogfighting. Most curious fact about Russian aviation is that the men who best demonstrate the Russian genius for conquering the air have made their greatest successes...
...Sons of the American Revolution. Their father was a mining engineer from Oil City, Pa. who liked to boast of his Scotch Covenanter descent. In 1880 he went to Russia to develop the rich oil fields at Grozny. There he met and married Xenia Rogoznaia, daughter of a Cossack general...
High on a long list of recent foreign importations is Russia's Sergei Kalmikoff, who weighs 235 lb., sports a straw-colored beard, a closely-cropped skull. Out of the ring, his .favorite pastime is to parade down Broadway, dressed in a gold-braided Cossack tunic with cartridge belt, boots, an astrakhan hat. In the ring, his customary procedure is to stroke his beard pensively, glower at spectators. His favorite hold is the Russian Bear Hug, nothing more than an earnest attempt to squeeze the living daylights out of his opponent. Last week Wrestler Kalmikoff, an ardent Communist, took...
Reza Shah Pahlavi was born a peasant, began his career as a Cossack trooper...