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...ready to kill that person without hesitation, drink two bottles of beer afterwards, go to the cinema, and then give myself up to the police." From her small purse Zina Jukova produced a bit of paper and a pencil. Pursing her lips, she wrote. "Draw that long Finnish knife you have, Sergei!" she laughed. "Here is your paper." Trembling, Student Slovochotov drew his knife. The girl, still laughing, unbuttoned her bodice with one hand, threw back her head, and pouted her lips to receive a kiss. . . . Some hours later Sergei Slovochotov gave himself up to the police. Before that...
...Helsingfors, Finland, Paavo Nurmi, monosyllabic marathoner, had his first interview with President Relander. The Finnish President, in all moments of conversational difficulty, turns to the formula of the catechism like those uncles who ask a child what he is studying, whether he loves his teacher, and so on, without listening to the answers. Chin in collar, Marathoner Nurmi stared at his hands...
Erich Ludendorff, semi-Napoleonic Prussian war lord: " 'Amazing!' commented the Press last week on the details just revealed, by Dr. Edward Hjelf, onetime Finnish Minister to Berlin, of my escape from Germany in 1918, just before the revolution. Dr. Hjelf said that I, fearing for my life, appealed to him, through the Finnish Foreign Office, for protection. He went on to state that he secured for me a diplomatic passport in the name of one Ernest Lindstrom, Counselor of the Ministry. Another Finnish diplomat, named Lindblom, had just died, but few knew it, and Dr. Hjelf, saying...
When the house lights flashed up six Finnish Communists were discovered to have staged this demonstration against President Relander. Soon they languished in a sanitary Danish jail...
...correction" or criticism" in the Aug. 30, 1926, issue of the TIME, "Lies," page 2, col. 2, I want to request you not to make corrections of statements and facts with which you are not personally acquainted; and also wish to inform you that they who have described the Finnish cities to you are actually liars, and stupid, as there are no fish-canning industries located in the cities, least of all in Helsingfors, which city is widely known and visited by tourists, and named "Paris of the North...