Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things like that, you know, must...
...things like that, you know, must...
Should there be another Blenheim we, like grandpa, must conclude...
...about roulette (10? a chip) and bingo (10? a card) in the consulate's shoddy rooms. An attendant was quoted: ". . . We don't have craps or the other games. Just bingo and the wheels. We could have craps, of course, but that would make it too much like a gambling joint...
...this portrait, Sergei (like other characters in the book) has more of the Russian character as portrayed by Tolstoy and Dostoevski than of that played up by Soviet fiction. Soviet critics explain that Russians have changed, grown cheerful, hygienic, machine-minded, athletic, non-acquisitive. They That Take the Sword suggests that the Russian character survives more stubbornly than any Soviet official confesses...