Word: romanoffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...groups that failed to receive rooms on the second allotment were: Nicholas, Romanoff, Dry, Gin, Oshkosh, and Second Best...
...uncompromising to the hopeful student of Russia as that which lets itself be led astray by these bugbears of the press. In spite of Russia's youthful errors of enthusiasm there still are some who believe a new order will spring, like the Phoenix, from the ashes of the Romanoff autocracy...
...same moment comes word that the much heralded movement for University primary education has failed. Soviet Minister of Education Lunacharsky in a report to the Central Executive Committee bewails a general decline. Only one-third as many children receive instruction today as in the closing years of the Romanoff regime...
...fermenting in his brain. German historians have found the prophet's robes pleasant. The latest, Dr. Kemmerich, too engrossed in the past to heed the late war, predicts that in twenty years Germany will be the mightiest nation in Europe. But since he also predicts that a new Romanoff czar will appear at the same time, his judgement would seem to be deflected by enthusiasm for the conditions of the past rather than guided by keen prophetic insight. But why speculate on the future when there is still room for so much interesting speculation on the past...
Prince Dmitry Michael Alexandrovitch Obolensi of Russia: " I turned over to the New York police a pocketful of notes threatening death. Except for the fact that my mother was a Romanoff, that I speak six languages and was educated at Oxford, and that I have found no work except delivering a few lectures on Russia, there is no reason why I should have any enemies...