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Although conceded a seven goal handicap at the start of the encounter, a foul by Quinlan took a half point from the Cossack score, while H. I. Nicholas '31, J. P. Cotton '29, and R. C. Walker '31, were building up the Harvard total with frequent tallies...
...Freshman game the 1932 riders showing great improvement over their play of last week held the Cossack trio for an even score for four chukkers to win on a goal scored by Crispin Cooke '32 in the last period...
...death bed, last week, the Dowager Empress whispered a wish to say farewell to the chief of her still faithful Cossack Guard. With tears streaming uncontrollably down his cheeks the giant Cossack came and knelt at her bedside. "God and all his Holy Angels receive you!" he cried, "I shall not survive you long, Matoushka Tsaritsa! I shall come to serve you in Heaven...
What the dying Empress whispered in reply could not be heard, but she managed to smile in farewell, and the big Cossack was led away by her physician, sobbing like a broken-hearted child. Present when Death came were the Empress's daughters, Grand Duchess Olga and Grand Duchess Xenia; with the latter's son Prince Vessli, members of the Danish Royal Family, and lastly Prince Dolgouriki, grizzled Major Domo, lifelong friend, faithful servitor...
...quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress uniform. Behind the President were grouped several Commissars (Ministers) clad as simply as he, and behind them, filling the station square, stood rank upon rank of Soviet infantry and a detachment of Red Cossack cavalry. President Kalinin, stepping forward and extending his hand, said briefly in Russian: "In behalf of the Soviet Government I greet your Majesty's arrival in the Soviet Union." Then as Queen Thuraya descended from the train, that great and polished linguist Soviet Foreign Minister Georges Tchitcherin advanced...