Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond the accountants' ken, though, there are less clearly observable reasons. "Greed, gre-e-ed, gre-e-e-e-ed," murmurs Boris Kostelanetz, 71, who was born in Leningrad when it was still St. Petersburg and is now the senior partner of Kostelanetz & Ritholz in Manhattan. He savors his own repetition of the word, but he feels that greed is not always or necessarily the motive. Says he: "Greed means you want to keep money and spend it on yourself. For tax evasion there is something else at work. People who don't file tax returns...
Mary Ann Marger St. Petersburg...
Outside observers, including New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis, have rallied to McCray's defense. When a St. Petersburg attorney phoned him and volunteered to help, McCray remembers, "I started to cry. I can't stop crying in this place. It meant so much to me, after all the other things that happened, that this man cared...
...born Roman Tyrtov in 1892 in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad); his pseudonym was coined from the French pronunciation (Air-tay) of his initials. At the age of five, he was already sketching designs for dresses. His entranced mother had a dressmaker whip up one of his creations, which she wore with great éclat. In the library of his father, an admiral, young Erté found a book of reproductions of Persian and Indian miniatures; the boy was so delighted that he decided to become an artist...
...from St. Petersburg Follet...