Word: czars
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Born in Russia in 1717, Cozens was either the son of a British shipbuilder at the court of Peter the Great, or the natural son of Czar Peter himself-Cozens' family genealogists differ. He made his reputation in England not as an artist but as an "Instructor in Drawing to the Young Princes" and as the author of such curious treatises as The Principles of Beauty relative to the Human Head and the New Method for assisting the Invention in the Composition of Landscape...
Last week, in a fat, 300-page centennial issue, Harper's published a selection of the reading and illustrations that had made it famed. (It also ran some of the early testimonial ads that had helped pay the way, e.g., "Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, rides a Dayton Bicycle.") The idea of the issue, said Editor in Chief Frederick Lewis (Only Yesterday) Allen, was "to do an historical survey without making it look like an historical survey." Thanks to a careful culling of yellowed Harper's files and a series of essays on the U.S. scene through...
Then, in 1947, Bill Drury got too energetic in his hunt for the killers of Racing Wire Czar James Ragen. It was taken for granted that The Outfit got Drury fired because he was getting too hot on the trail of a most delicate matter: complete control of Chicago's fabulously rich bookie business...
Young Teacher. Ab Cahan was a young teacher in Vilna, and a Marxian Socialist, when the Czar's police began shadowing him. He fled to New York, got work in a cigar factory. To learn English well, 22-year-old Ab Cahan unashamedly went to grade school with children, working nights so that he could do so. He devoted his spare time to the Socialist and labor movements, by 1885 was editing the Socialist weekly Arbeiter Zeitung and writing perceptive short stories about East Side Jews. His novel, The Rise of David Levinsky, written in 1917, is still regarded...
...century ago these lyrical sketches of Russian country life were considered an incendiary call for the abolition of Russian serfdom. When the book first appeared in 1852, the czar's advisers strongly warned lim against it. But Alexander II read the book and later admitted that it had indeed helped persuade him to free the serfs...