Word: cossack
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...Ivan Ilich Borodin was Vassar's own bald-headed president. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken-an experienced amateur actor, who entertains his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day and two years ago performed as Theseus in Euripides' Hippolytns. Professor Sterlsky played the part of a Cossack. Fear has two main plot themes: 1) Ivan Borodin's efforts to deal with his political superiors, who appoint incompetents to assist him and interfere with his scientific researches; 2) the sad case of Amalya, a withered female aristocrat. Borodin makes Amalya his housekeeper while officials appoint her ignorant...
...Milhaud to write his music. Diaghilev fathered the Monte Carlo Company. He loved the Riviera, often took his dancers there to rehearse. When he died in 1929 a few stayed on because Charlotte, the hereditary Princess of Monaco, was interested in them. When Col. Vassily de Basil, a onetime Cossack officer who had been putting on Russian opera in Paris, went down to take it over, Princess Charlotte was ready to finance him. Nijinsky was no longer there. His brain had cracked and he was in a Swiss asylum. But there was handsome Leonide Massine who, if not so great...
...England at the outbreak of the Boer War, Talbot went back again as war correspondent. A slow-healing love affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed by a drunken Cossack servant, rested a while at Verkhoyansk, coldest spot on earth. A fellow-traveller, Scientist Hertz, sent him some frozen flesh of a mammoth he had found. Talbot "ate it thoughtfully, for was it not about 8,000 years...
...Roosevelt) to the 18 employes on his farm. Each employe was also given a costume from the Barlow collection. An ironclad clause in the will provided that none of the legacies should be paid unless the 18 legatees wore their fancy costumes continuously for one year. Chinese mandarin, cossack, matador, Indian rajah and Hawaiian went stolidly about their work last week, counting the days...
...definite style note is the new high-crowned hats, adaptations of Arab fezzes, pill boxes, Cossack and clown hats, now sweeping France as copies of the Camel cigaret slouch hat are sweeping U. S. department stores. According to smartchart scouts, the originator of the season's high hattery is the lovely Comtesse Francois-Guillaume de Maigret who persuaded Maria Guy to adapt a Tunisian Chechia on her return from an African vacation, and wore it with devastating success at Parisian race tracks. Other milliners hurried in with other high hats. ¶ Plaid evening dresses are enormously popular. In colors...