Word: passports
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like many ex-Communists, Ruth Fischer tends to deify Lenin, heaping all the sins of Communism on Stalin. A typical Fischer anecdote: in 1925 Stalin had summoned her to Moscow. When she arrived her passport was taken away and for ten months she was a virtual prisoner in Moscow's flea-bitten Hotel Lux. Stalin left Moscow on vacation and Zinoviev plotted to get her safely back to Germany...
Until he got into the political big time, De Bernonville was unknown in Canada. That was the way he wanted it. Two years ago, using a forged passport and the name of Jacques Benoit, he had sneaked into the Dominion from the U.S. At first he kept out of sight by working in the Quebec woods. Then he settled in Montreal's fashionable Côte des Neiges district, was joined by his wife and three daughters, gradually began to move about in the French-speaking community. He drifted from one job to another, working for a while with...
Curtis Boettiger, hale & hearty after full recovery from a mild attack of polio two weeks ago, applied for a passport to accompany his Grandmother Roosevelt to the U.N. meeting in Paris, where he would be her secretary...
...third summons arrived August 4. This time we went to Interior's Passport Section. As my protectors and I arrived at the office of a Captain Sabry, one of them said: 'I was spit on only once climbing the stairs ; I guess that's par for the course.' With a face-cracking smile the captain demanded my passport, flipped through it and said: 'Your residence visa has expired.' I pointed out that it had just been renewed. Said he : 'I am cancelling it. You will get a temporary visa. You will leave Egypt...
...associate of Huston's, later bumped into Croves in San Antonio, Tex., and at Croves's urgent request lent him $100. The loan was repaid by check. Spota never learned who had signed the check. But he discovered that Croves had been traveling on a U.S. passport, and that the check had been sent from Acapulco...