Word: dmitry
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...telescoping Fyodor Dostoyevsky's prodigious novel to cinema size, the producers naturally selected the moments where the action moved most quickly- Dmitri Karamazov's farewell to his fiancee, the murder of his father, for which he is later arrested, his affair with Gruschenka which reaches its climax in a debauch at a back-country roadhouse. Before the Manhattan premiere, the U. S. subsidiary of Tobis offered prizes for a 300-word synopsis of The Brothers Karamazov. The melodrama of Karamazov, for a German spectator, is sound and exciting and far more valuable than the apologetic realism...
...handed it to Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov. Cried she dramatically: "I come to you with a petition as the peasants were wont to do before the Tsar!" The message began: IN THE NAME OF HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES PLEASE HELP MY WIFE IN MOSCOW. . . . It was signed by one Dmitri Pavlovich Krynine, onetime Soviet expert on roadbuilding sent to the U. S. to study local methods, who was injured in a motor accident, decided to remain in the U. S., is now Research Associate in Transportation at Yale University. He already had his son Paul with him; he sent...
...King's arrival in Paris half the exiled Royalty of Europe flocked to the hotel with messages of condolence. Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians called, so did ex-Empress Zita of Austria (Alfonso gave her refuge in Madrid after her downfall). So did Prince Nicholas of Greece, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia. After a day hectic with worry, exhaustion and despair, word came up that Marie of Rumania was downstairs...
...been for centuries shut off in palaces, protected, restricted, compelled to live among its own dreams and illusions. Meantime the world and its needs pass us by. That is why we are destined to be destroyed or forgotten." Orphaned by the death of her mother, Marie and her brother Dmitri were brought up by a grand ducal uncle and aunt. When she was 15 her uncle was killed by a revolutionist's bomb. Her aunt married her off to a Swedish prince when she was 18. Marie liked her husband less and less, got the marriage annulled, went back...
...elements which the late great Russian Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendelèeff (1834-1907) predicates with his Periodic Law, 16 have been discovered since 1894.* Two remain to be isolated-eka-iodine and eka-cesium.† Last week Dr. Fred Allison and Edgar Jackson Murphy of Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Ala., reported that they had "evidence of considerable weight for the presence" of eka-cesium in certain salts they had reduced from lepidolite, a form of mica, and pollucite, a mineral consisting chiefly of cesium, aluminum and silicon. When they break down their salts they will get a soft silvery...