Word: petrova
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter P. Chrysler, motor maker, offered to build two swimming pools, some bathhouses and a long pier on an eight-acre estate, once Actress Olga Petrova's, owned by him at Great Neck, L. I., and also to throw in $15,000 cash and trade the Petrova for a two-acre public beach adjoining his own home. Great Neck refused...
What Do We Know? The ornate Olga Petrova sat down and wrote a play about spiritualism; got up and acted it. There was some perplexity in the audience as to whether she was for or against it. Finally her attitude seemed favorable. By that time it didn't matter much...
Some weeks ago the superstitious peasantry of the village of Zikliev endeavored to determine whether one M. Vchov and one Mme. Petrova had committed certain petty thefts by forcing them to undergo a "trial by ordeal...
...Vchov and Mme. Petrova unfortunately recovered at dawn, and their heads were promptly crushed "with a heavy axle beam" while the mob howled "to drive away their evil spirits...
Along the ship's rails 2,300 passengers watched expectantly; there might be something interesting. Morris Hillquit, socialist, was there, very much interested in the strike procedure. Olga Petrova was there, expecting a good show. There was Mrs. William B. De Mille thinking what a great scene it would be for her husband. Onetime Senator Joseph Frelinghuysen of New Jersey looked on meditatively, calculating what political events might have developed if the strike had happened in Hoboken. There too was Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, wondering whether after all Trotzky had discovered a way of destroying the British mastery...