Word: referse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Of Sudden Death. In his diary and letters Stilwell usually refers to Chiang Kai-shek as "Peanut" and Roosevelt as "Old Softie." The crisis in Stilwell's struggles with "Peanut" and "Old Softie" came in September 1944. In nis disgust with Chiang, he wrote to Mrs. Stilwell, "Why can...
One day, at a Politburo meeting, he contradicted Stalin on a minor matter. The Leader suddenly (and for the first time on such an occasion) let go with several frightening Georgian curses. Dzerzhinsky suffered an apoplectic stroke and died. The Soviet press always refers to him as "Fearless Knight of...
What is in a name? Everything, it would appear, when TIME [Nov. 24] refers to the Boyman's Museum, Rotterdam, and other purchasers of Van Meegeren's pictures, as suckers, owing to their acquisitions having proved the work of a contemporary artist, instead of genuine Vermeers. Has their...
Hot music's anaesthetic effect must have made it particularly popular in Europe during the period between the wars. France had its stringed Hot Club, and Hugues Pannassie learned to speak English with a Louisiana accent. In his biography, "Swing That Music," Louis Armstrong refers to his 1934 Continental tour...
* Sister Ruth apparently loves neither one and is loved by neither. Onetime leader of Germany's Communists, she was tossed out of the party in 1926 and now edits an anti-Stalinist newsletter in the U.S. Gerhart she has described as "the perfect terrorist type," Hanns "a Communist in...