Word: georgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first-and second-shift Marxes occupy a rambling, white-pillared Georgian mansion on a 20-acre estate in suburban Scarsdale, just off the Hutchinson River Parkway. Marx bought the red brick house for his first wife during World War II, but before they could move in, Renee Freda Marx died of cancer. After that, says Rosie O'Donnell, "Lou was both father and mother" to his children: Barbara, now 26, wife of Artist-Writer Earl Hubbard; Louis Jr., 24, a Princeton graduate, now a Marine lieutenant; Jacqueline ("Jackie"), a pretty, dark-haired Vassar graduate who joins New Jersey Republican Senator...
Among the few people close enough to the late Dictator Stalin to address him by his nickname "Koba" was a fellow Georgian, Sergo Ordzhonikidze (rhymes roughly with poor-Johnny-kids-me), an oldtime Bolshevik who had risen to be top commissar of heavy industry. One day in 1936, during what Russians now call the Ezhovshchina (the purge which carried off some 7,000,000 Russians to Siberian prison camps and mass graves), Ordzhonikidze learned that his precious engineers were being arrested. Victor (1 Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, a minor executive of the Commissariat, later told of Ordzhoni-kidze's telephone...
Offer in Toledo. In booming 1928 First Baptist (founded in 1780) built itself a big $400,000 Georgian building, which covers most of a block on Monument Avenue. But in depressed 1935 the deacons were desperate. Interest payments on the building debt were barely being met, and the congregation had been without a regular pastor for 14 months...
Throughout the meals, collective farm-girls plied the farmers with vodka, Georgian champagne and sweet wine, Moldavian muscatel, Ukrainian riesling, Armenian cognac and beer. "During the meal at least a dozen toasts are drunk to world peace, Soviet-American friendship, the exchange of ideas, and to women of both countries," reported New York Times Correspondent Welles Hangen. "Thereafter it is open season for anyone to propose a toast to almost anything except war, Fascism and mass destruction." But as for Soviet agriculture, one member of the U.S. delegation remarked: "In general it seems to me that the living standard...
...Bowdler's Nightmare might have plagued the real Mr. Bowdler, a pious Georgian gentleman who spent a number of years trying to out the damned spots from Shakespeare's works by expurgating the dirty words. Mr. Bowdler dreams that his wife, as a result of never having been allowed to see any dirty words, tries to imagine them instead, and starts giving the most obscene interpretations to the most innocent remarks. Author Russell's novel moral: Never brush the dirt under the carpet; the little woman is sure to stumble...