Word: fonteyn
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...1930s, Shanghai's Russian community had swelled to more than 10,000 and was the second biggest in the city after the Japanese. Its members staged operas, ballets and plays?one former ballerina even taught a young Margot Fonteyn to dance?and their restaurants, millineries and fur shops helped give the French Concession its cosmopolitan character. Every self-respecting Chinese gangster had a bevy of White Russian bodyguards riding on the running boards of his Chevrolet...