Word: leningraders
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...that, should the Great Powers remain neutral, she could not only take Vladivostok and Russia's Siberian fishing grounds with ease but could also send a few of her better war boats around to crush the Soviet toys in the Baltic Sea and bombard the daylights out of Leningrad...
Soviet Russians like their dancers to be athletes, tireless as machines. Tatiana Vecheslova and Vachtang Chabukani, so important in Leningrad that they are permitted to get on the front end of street cars along with pregnant women, had come to the U. S. as the Soviet's first artistic delegation...
Died. Anatoly Vasilevich Lunacharsky, 58, Soviet Ambassador to Spain, dramatist, and longtime (1917-29) People's Commissar for Education; of arteriosclerosis; in Menton, France. Communist 100-percenters viewed him as a "liberal" and an esthete, were horrified when he held up the Moscow-Leningrad express for his actress wife, finally forced his resignation...
...Russia, where the Colonel headed a U. S. Red Cross mission in bloody 1917 and which he revisited on Red May Day 1933, Raymond Robins is known as a man of phenomenal memory, able to recall in minute detail his conversations with Nikolai Lenin and the events in Leningrad (then Petrograd) leading up to the creation of the Soviet Union...
...Eyck. Belittlers have insisted that the small panels (each 22¼ by 7¾ in.) do not belong together: they have hinted that no such person as Hubert van Eyck ever existed. Nobody has ever denied that the two panels have been among the greatest treasures of the Leningrad Hermitage Museum for more than 80 years, that with their gay Flemish color, their microscopic detail yet breadth of execution-photographs of the tiny panels make them look like murals-they are among the most important paintings in the world. The Brothers van Eyck (Hubert 1366- 1426; John 1385-1441) used...