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Long-Arm was succeeded by many rival princes, among them Basil the Cross-eyed, who later became Basil the Sightless and Ivan Kalita, called Moneybag, who first gave Moscow something like an ordered economy. The young town was repeatedly overrun by the Golden Horde of Tartars, one of whose reasons for coming back again & again was Moscow's women, much coveted on the world slave markets. Sultan Ahmed I is said to have asked his eldest son one day: "My Osman, wilt thou conquer Crete for me?" Whereupon Osman replied: "What have I to do with Crete? I will...
...middle of the 15th Century, Moneybag's descendants had established a dynasty and a tyranny. Ivan III married Zoe, the niece of the last Eastern Roman emperor, who brought Byzantium's religion, architecture and incense-heavy intrigue to Moscow, which was now more powerful than any other Russian city. She hoped to make it succeed history's two earlier Romes (the one on the Tiber and the one on the Bosporus). Ivan took the title of Czar, i.e., Caesar, and Sovereign of all the Russias. He began to build a strong brick wall around the Kremlin...
...equivalent of April Fool's Day. At the San Tome camp of the Mene Grande Oil Co., the plane had just landed from Caracas. Its most important cargo: $287,000 in crisp bills to pay drillers and riggers. It brought also a surprise. When company paymasters opened the moneybag, they found only bricks and old newspapers. A Day of the Innocents' joke, was their first thought. But it was no joke; somewhere between Caracas and San Tome the payroll pouch had been stolen...
...life of post-World War I that he scarcely bothers to sing for his supper. Women-princesses, chambermaids, davies, chorines-are all bowled over by Michel's fascinating indifference. At 25, Michel is the western world's most bored Casanova, married to an aging American moneybag and hopelessly in love with a frigid Swede...
...Randolph Scott, is as agreeable to see as he is to hear. His specialty is straight verbal misfires such as "satisfied public accountant," his proud claim to sexual "maggotism" and his wistful reference to his Harvard days ("good old Eli"). But he also delivers a permanent description of a moneybag: "If he can't take it with him I guarantee...