Word: romanov
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...Russia's last ruling Romanov had not overreached himself by building a railway clear across Manchuria and down to Port Arthur, thus provoking the disastrous Russo-Japanese War, he might conceivably be on his throne today. From the shame of their defeat by yellow men, Russia's Imperial Government never entirely recovered but they did always manage to hold the steel ribbons into furthest Asia which they had built, the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week, to the shame of Soviet Russia, her rights over the C. E. R. were sold, or rather yielded to Manchukuo by Joseph Stalin...
...horde of unexampled experts in bootlick, blackmail and blatherskite." As victims of this Inquisition he cites the late Sergei Yessenin and Vladimir Maiakovsky (both suicides) ; the conversion of "the mirthful satirist, Valentine Kataev . . . into a faithful Sunday School moralist of the five-year plan"; the groveling recantation of Panteleimon Romanov; the humiliation of Boris Pilnyak, president of the Russian Authors' League, who was forced to save his skin by rewriting a "harmful" book into a "harmless" one; the refusal of Isaac Babyel to publish anything at all under present conditions. A scornful disbeliever in the Communist theory that...
...Grand Duchess Marie of Russia (now of Manhattan) walked into another Hammer exhibition of Romanov chattels one day last winter, claimed that some of the dishes were from her Petrograd home. When l'Ermitage Galleries, whose dishes they now are, refused to return them, Grand Duchess Marie sued...
Editor Balmer understood better the royal mind. He had already contracted for a series of articles from that lank Romanov, the Grand Duke Alexander, who has been earning a precarious living in the U. S. by lecturing ladies' clubs on the Better Life. Filled with journalistic zeal, H. I. H. wrote to his editor and suggested that he might go out to Fontainebleau to talk to Alfonso, might persuade his former Majesty to allow a transcript of that conversation to be published. He did. The first instalment of the transcription is on U. S. newsstands this week...
...Reporter Romanov found it a little difficult to ask questions, for the Bourbons were much more anxious to learn about the U. S. and in particular Chicago. Had he ever seen a "pineapple" being thrown? Did he know any gangsters? Did all Chicagoans have to pay extra-high premiums on life insurance policies? Alfonso XIII thumped on the table...