Word: curtseys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Stalin's grey-haired mother appeared, she wore a common Georgian peasant dress of grey wool, peered at her unexpected U. S. visitor and his Georgian interpreter, dropped them a curtsey, motioned hospitably toward chairs, apologized for having no tea or coffee to offer, apologized also for speaking only Georgian...
...York State unguarded by police. Two stalwart officers accompanied him to the very stage of Mechanics Hall, but the boy was apparently unmoved by the stir they caused, or by the presence in the front row of his watchful father. With great self-possession he scraped a little curtsey, gave a rarely luminous performance of the Concerto, returned to his towering escorts...