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Word: longâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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Evenings in Russia are long??? how better to pass them than by a game of chess in front of the fire? A Paris restaurant, chequered with the light and shade of tablecloths and parquetry, is a background that fittingly salutes a pair of men in dinner-clothes seated on each side of a black and white board; in California patios, in drawing-rooms overlooking the Grand Canal of Venice, in the smoking-car of the Florida Sunbeam, and on the glass verandas of the hotels that front the long sea-promenade at Ostend, the game is played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Moscow | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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