Word: neva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before Peter the Great built his famed northern capital astride the River Neva and christened it with his own name, it was an old Russian custom to honor a hero by calling a town after him. With the renaming of Petrograd in honor of Lenin, the Bolsheviks picked up the custom and carried it on with such vigor that a Russian geography now reads like a combination Who's Who, Social Register and Roll of Honor...
From Soviet ex-Minister to Sweden Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontay, 74 (also known as the Madame Pompadour of the Russian Revolution), came a bit of rhapsodic reminiscence: "I remember the room in Smolny where the Central Committee met. The windows looked out on to the Neva, and a strong wind from the river rattled the panes. One electric lamp burned dimly over a small table around which the Committee members met. The situation was tense. ... On Lenin's right sat Stalin in his dark Russian shirt, his silent self-possession forming a strong contrast to the excited tirades of some...
Last week, at a convention of pediatricians in Skytop, Pa., Dr. Louis K. Diamond, 44-year-old assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard, and Dr. Neva M. Abelson of Philadelphia, reported on recent studies of the Rh factor, disclosed the heartening news that it was no cause for panic. Some conclusions...
...misty morning the signal came. As the men moved out, they saw silhouetted the massive St. Isaac's Cathedral, the battered Admiralty, the grey ships on the Neva. On the broad, cold Nevski Prospect the passers-by guessed: the hour was near...
...Baby Nora Bayes. Her career happened to Judy even more chancily than her name. Late in 1934 she ended a solo engagement at Lake Tahoe's Cal-Neva Lodge, drove off with her mother but forgot her hatbox. When she went back to get it, a man asked her to sing for him. She was in a hurry, but graciously agreed. The man was Song Writer Lew Brown. With him was Agent Al Rosen. So impressed was Agent Rosen by Judy's singing that for fruitless months he lugged the child around the Hollywood studios while casting directors...