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Word: karpovskaya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Cosmetics Queen was, however, in the U. S. on business, traveling under the incognito of Olga Karpovskaya. Up to 1934 her cosmetics were unfashionable in bread-hungry Russia, and Moscow newsorgans sharply ridiculed the cosmetics trust without mentioning the fact that its head was wife of the President of the Council. In those dark days Mme Molotov used no cosmetics herself, dressed in knitted caps, dark suits and belted raincoats. Last week, Joseph Stalin's views on Fun-for-the-Masses having been changed by better times, Mme Molotov could cheerfully tell U. S. newshawks through an interpreter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Grim Queen | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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