Word: romanov
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...Arcola Amusement Park, N. J., one George Romanov, side-show wrestler, swelled his muscles, slapped his paunch, grunted at the crowd, "Who's nex'? Who's nex'?" No burly boy came forward. So Wrestler Romanov, feeling potent, had the show's trained bear brought into the ring. The bear patted, pawed, nuzzled Wrestler Romanov, hugged him close. Wrestler Romanov squirmed, grunted, plunged from the ring, ran?bear behind?to Saddle River, dove in, swam to safety...
Russians listened in over the radio, last week, while Minister of Health Semashko delivered a "psychopathological analysis of the Romanov Tsars." Said he: "They were depraved and drunken despots. . . . Peter the Great personally decapitated many victims of his bestiality and buried others alive. . . . All the Romanovs were incurable epileptics. . . . Alexander III was a fat, greasy hippopotamus. . . ." During the Health Commissioner's harangue, Dictator Stalin, Premier Rykov and 200 other prominent communists sat gravely before Dr. Semashko in the Imperial Opera House, applauded him heartily...
...nephew King Christian X she sits quite still. Her footman, kindliest of Russian servitors, hastens to open the door and helps her to descend. To him she is, will always be, "Matoushka Tsaritsa," ¹beloved wife of the "Little Father" Alexander III and mother of the last Romanov Emperor, Nicholas II. Surely the memories of this once very great lady are stranger, more glamorous, than any fairy-tale by her Danish countryman Hans Christian Andersen. Her new biography is among the most richly colorful of the year...
Just to show that they are still there, that they have not been sold, as so often reported, the Moscow Government led the Diplomatic Corps to the state vault in the Treasury to see the Romanov Crown Jewels...
...Russias"; the other, by Grank Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, first cousin once removed of the Tsar and former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Imperial Army, who opposes Kyrill's pretensions on the ground that they violate the wishes of the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna and the Romanov family council...