Word: elena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chekhov's short stories, some city people, whom we may take as symbolic of the Western world, try to make friends with the peasants of a nearby village, only to be repulsed time after time. The last attempt is made by the mother of the family, Elena Ivanovna, who goes to the village with her little girl, and tries to have a heart-to-heart talk with the peasants. It is not successful. Here is what Chekhov tells...
...Elena Ivanovna suddenly became timid. She turned pale and shrunk together as though she had been touched with something coarse, and walked away without saying another word...
...balding Scholar Wilson came one of those attentions he never got in the cloistered days before his Memoirs of Hecate County was banned. His fourth and current wife, Elena, was nominated by a group of magazine artists one of the Ten Most Glamorous Women...
...ELENA SCHECTER Los Angeles...
...Socialists and Communists already on record for a republic, the Savoyards had little chance of saving their throne in the plebiscite next June. Italians had always snickered at little (5 ft. 3 in.) Vittorio Emanuele, cursed him for abetting Mussolini's war. They liked towering (6 ft.) Queen Elena well enough; but they could never quite forget that she was a foreigner from Montenegro (once famed for its brisk export trade in marriageable princesses). Playboy Crown Prince Umberto, though abler than his parents, would probably have to join Europe's swelling ranks of unemployed royalty...