Word: petersburgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People. One typical measure of this love is the superior attitude toward the rival city of Leningrad (or St. Petersburg, as many oldsters still call it), which Peter the Great built. Disaster cannot kill this feeling for Moscow, and exile only enhances it. Last week, a Muscovite who has not seen his birthplace in 30 years reminisced...
...Moscow people do not drink coffee as the Petersburg aristocrats and bureaucrats do. Moscow merchants, teachers priests, industrialists drink tea 'until the seventh sweat,' as we say. They drink tea, sweat, dry themselves with a towel and start all over again. A Muscovite has seen a lot, knows his worth, but doesn't put on airs. He has an open Russian face, not necessarily with an uplifted bulbous nose. He also has an open soul. He is not cold like Petersburg people-he is passionate and sincere. He keeps all holidays and fast days, but during Muslenitsa...
Happy Day. In St. Petersburg, Fla., the Chamber of Commerce proudly announced that a visitor from Tennessee was suing the city for $500, for first-degree burns suffered while sunbathing...
...Petersburg, the tarpon boats lay idle at their piers. Down the coast at Sarasota, merchants glumly watched the summer vacationists pack their bags and leave. The beach hot-dog stands were deserted at Indian Rocks and Pass-a-Grille; many beach cottages were empty. Under the hot summer sun, the stench of rotting fish seeped into houses, clung to clothes. The strange phenomenon which Floridians called the "Red Tide" had come back to the Gulf Coast...
Mottled Death. The amber streaks disappeared. Then, in the middle of July, the Red Tide reappeared off Gasparilla Island. Slowly, it worked northward, dissipating mysteriously, as mysteriously reforming. Last week off St. Petersburg, the Red Tide stretched in mottled patches over an area 60 miles long and 25 miles wide. As it spread, fish flopped crazily on the edges and died. Flies buzzed over their rotting carcasses on the beaches. Shore residents suffered headaches, burning throats and coughs...