Word: essenine
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Divorced. Isadora Duncan, famed dancer, from Serge Essenin, Bolshevik poet who "wooed her with gestures, since neither understood the other's language"; in Russia. Word came that Isadora sought the divorce because of her husband's waning enthusiasm for the Bolshevik regime, which she still favors...
...sermon of mine preached in New York, offered me $1,000 if I ' or any other Biblical infidel' will produce one single fact proving the materialistic evolution of man out of a lower order of species." Isadora Duncan, dancer: "I denied a report that my husband, Serge Essenin, sympathizes with the French Royalists. Said I: ' Serge is a poet. And poets are too lofty in their thoughts and ideals to descend to the point of even considering worldly political differences!' " Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippines: "The present typhoon season is the worst in years...
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