Word: neva
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kovno, Lithuania, a gentleman disappeared. The local soviet announced a reward "for the finding of the corpse of Judge Dmitri Petrovitch, believed to have been drowned in the Neva. Height, six feet; hair, black; eyes, brown; special identification: he stutters...
...spirit stayed on. Lying shrouded in her bier, she blinked an eye owlishly when he bent to kiss her hand. Later at his barracks she came to him, hissed the secret of the cards and disappeared. Lisa disappeared too, to the bottom of the Neva because he would not heed her warnings against the gaming-table. There he twice won fabulous sums, but the third card was wrong. It was the Queen of Spades instead of the Ace of Hearts and on it grinned the ghoulish face of the old countess, urging him to his suicide...
...people"; how in greasy boots he walked over the imperial parquets; how he gained almost complete mastery over the Tsar and Tsarina; how Prince Yussupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri, murdered him in an attempt to deliver the royal couple from his clutches and threw his body into the Neva from a bridge in Petrograd. Most of this was known before (TIME, Dec. 6, 1926), but it is the first time that Prince Yussupov has told it in his own words...
...GUTHRIE Fargo, N. D. An exaggeration. If "everyone" asked for TIME the circulation would be 1,500,000,000.- ED. Sirs: "Unhappy Christmas the time would be without But TIME!" unhappier still, Christmas without NEVA E. BALL Tulsa, Okla. Another exaggeration. Many a Christmas will be happy without TIME. - ED. Sirs: mitted Having by taken Subscriber note of the Hennessley* I herewith submit : Save TIME- read it ! MRS. J. H. FRANSEN Whittier, Calif. Not bad. - ED. Sirs: In the matter of "better slogans" - A wish, a drop of ink, a dime† Remitted weekly, procures Eternal TIME. CHARLES E. KEITH...
...shave. He did not want to wear his subconscious on his chin. But the Shah of Persia, who affected still the long spiky bristle of the mandarin, was worried. When he heard how the naked chin of Peter gleamed blue and shameless in his new palace, Petersburg, upon the Neva, he sent him a fine rug as one who would say: In mystery the twig is bent, and a patch of hair divides one nation from another. Let peace be between us, my brother, although your shears are impudent...