Word: eyeteeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aristocrat's Assistant. Maxim Maxi-movich Litvinoff cut his diplomatic eyeteeth in the service of the great Georgy Chicherin, aristocratic, Tolstoyan figure who grew up to be a Tsarist diplomat and later renounced his inheritance to become a hunted revolutionary. Chicherin-with Litvinoff as his Vice-Commissar-struggled in the early 1920s to break through the cordon sanitaire which French President Raymond Poincaré had tried to weld around hated Red Russia. The Soviet Union was not even permitted a seat in the spectators' gallery at the Versailles Peace Conference. Many a country refused to recognize...
...editors of New York papers which he wrote for me to use in approaching them for a job. At the time he went to great trouble to impress me with the fact that hundreds upon hundreds of reporters throughout the length and breadth of the countryside would give their eyeteeth to possess them. . . . And here was I, Destiny's tot, getting them for absolutely nothing. Before that evening was over they cost...
...disgust. Coming to know people is not always a pleasant experience and Author Hecht's creature seems at first a repulsive caricature. But the caricature grows into a portrait, the creature into a personality who is as interesting as he is unpleasant. Many an author would give his eyeteeth to be able to approximate the Hechticvitality. Jo Boshere (real name: Abe Nussbaum) made a fortune on the stock exchange, then turned his attention to publishing. But his real hobby was women. He was married to a woman "whom he kept concealed on ocean liners," with whom he enjoyed sporadic...