Word: olga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian newspaper readers, Madame Molotov's attempt to make soap from frog fat was a surefire joke. So was her 1936 visit (as Olga Karpovskaya) to New York and Washington, where she lunched with Eleanor Roosevelt and announced that Soviet men had gone back to using toilet water. The Pearl was soon promoted to the Ministry of Food Industry, Division of Fish. Years later, having thoroughly proved her incompetence, she was fired by a rising young party boss named Georgy Malenkov. "The crux of the matter," Stalin is said to have remarked, "is that too many fish are swimming...
...first son of the reigning dynasty to be born on Rumanian soil and 101 guns had been fired at his birth in 1893. When his dominating mother, Queen Marie, conspired with Czar Nicholas II to marry him off at 20 to the Czar's eldest daughter, Olga, his reply was that he liked the Czar's second daughter, Tatiana, better. Cracked Nicholas Romanov, as he called off the match: "Rumania, bah! It is neither a state nor a nation, but a profession." Four years later, Carol eloped with a commoner named Zizi Lambrino. The queen was furious...
...Certain Conflict. Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, for 26 years Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India, was not always so beloved among her subjects. For all that she had been born in England, a cousin of Queen Victoria and a great-granddaughter of George III, the shy, penniless German Princess who in 1893 married the future George V, then Duke of York, was not welcomed with open arms. British sentiment was affronted by the fact that she had previously been affianced to the Duke's elder brother, heir presumptive to Victoria's throne...
...OLGA MAYNARD Yuma, Ariz...
...Soviet Union can make citizens by handing out passports promiscuously in the U.S.," growled Pat McCarran, "then the Congress will have to do something about it." But in Washington, State Department officials explained that Olga is still a U.S. citizen whether she likes it or not. To become a Russian, she would first have to leave the U.S. So far as the State Department is concerned, she can leave any time she pleases...