Word: ivan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ivan Manghikian, self-styled "American shoemaker" arrived at Paris recently from Moscow with a testimonial reading as follows: "General Antremick is proud to attest that Executioner Manghikian, attached to the Russian Armies, has to my knowledge rendered justice 364 times...
...Paris Ivan Manghikian married. One night last week he fell a-brooding. At last he unpacked his heavy executioner's sword, sev ered his wife's neck with one deft blow while she slept. Arrested, Ex-Executioner Manghikian said: "There are 365 days in the year, but I had cut off only 364 heads. Now at last the number is complete...
MITYA'S LOVE-Ivan Bunin-Holt ($2). To one who can feel the horror of talking into empty rooms, of screaming into unechoing abysses, of writing to no response, of being knouted by silences-to such a one this story of Mitya's adolescent love for unanswering Katya tolls familiarly. Mitya did love the young, amorous girl. When she put her little hand on his arm and looked up at him, he was very happy and not a little proud, and "strode along, like a country boy, so fast that she could hardly keep up with him." There...
MITYA'S LOVE-Ivan Bunin-Holt ($2). Love in old Russia...
Significance. Interest promptly centered upon whether the new regime would attempt to enact strong arm prohibition in place of the highly successful "Stockholm system" of liquor control inaugurated in 1916 by Dr. Ivan Bratt, which was extended throughout Sweden in 1919 as the "Bratt system...