Word: leningraders
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...estuary of the Neva, which flows through Leningrad, former Petrograd, née St. Petersburg, gulped down vast quantities of fresh sea water from the Gulf of Finland, submerged three-quarters of the city. Ten lives were lost. Then the estuary spued back the water; life in the city became normal, but damage was done to the extent of millions of dollars. A cyclone caused the flood...
When an empire falls, its riches are the more readily seen from its ruins. So with the empire of Russia. The Soviet Government, to refute charges of looting, has thrown open to public view the Hermitage, Leningrad, renowned Museum and Art Gallery of the Romanoffs. Once more is revealed the enormous wealth, hoarded through centuries, on which the old regime rested. In the Hermitage are exhibited 45 of the greatest paintings of Rembrandt and a collection of Persian objets d'art that is indubitably the finest in the world, both in the number and the quality of the pieces...
...Caucasus, Sunday is called Lenin Day because the great Red Chief was buried on a Sabbath (TIME, Feb. 4). A report that Russia was to be renamed Leninia or Leninland lacked confirmation. Petrograd has already been named Leningrad (TIME, April 14). Under the Kremlin walls in Moscow excavations were made for a permanent Lenin tomb. Popular superstition has had it for many centuries that there exists an "underground Kremlin" full of priceless treasures of medieval Tsars. This has been discovered to be fact, and the Bolsheviki, having discovered many wondrous things, are fired with the hope of extracting riches undreamed...
...this case of "Russia" is only one of many that--through changes of name that reflect political changes--illustrate the great readjustment this decade has caused in the world. Russia becomes the USSR, St. Petersburg becomes Petrograd, and Petrograd becomes Leningrad. Czecho-Slovakia achieves unity and statehood. The Slavs of southern Europe get together, and Jugoslavia is a new reality with the high title of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Thus the old order changeth...
...automobile returning from Pskov to Leningrad (Petrograd) overturned. Isadora Duncan, dancer, escaped death by millimetres...