Word: romanovs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Englishman who was born in Russia, has written novels, short stories, a play, a critical biography of Chekhov. He is perhaps most widely known for his novel The Polyglots. Last week he added to his list a long (484-page), glittering, malicious, at times staggeringly funny history of the Romanov dynasty. Subtitled Evocation of the Past as a Mirror for the Present, it is a profuse record of peculiarly dizzy people in a peculiarly dizzy part of the world...
...choosy Balkan Prince had the last laugh on the proud Emperor of Holy Russia. By 1918 Nicholas Romanov had lost his job and his life: by 1930 not only was Carol Hohenzollern very much alive, but after four-and-a-half years of self-exile, he was back in Bucharest and able truthfully to describe his profession to Rumania's census-takers as "mostly a king," secondarily a "farmer." The Tsar lost his throne primarily because he did not know his job. Rumania and the world have become gradually convinced that Farmer-King Carol thoroughly knows...
...lover of crowns, Führer Hitler would nevertheless not be averse to using any sentiment that exists for a Romanov restoration in Russia to further his own ambitions for an "independent," German-dominated Ukraine. A Romanov trek back to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) is probably outside the realm of possibility, but a substitute throne at Kiev, capital of the Soviet Ukraine, might well be "Tsar" Vladimir's if he plays ball with Führer Hitler, and if Nazi plans work on schedule...
...monopoly in the Soviet Union from the State under the NEP or "New Economic Policy" of Nikolai Lenin. They cleaned up huge profits making pencils for Communists to plan with, and the Stalin State finally paid the Hammers $1,000,000 for their going concern, let them take out Romanov antiques which they now sell on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
...speech so raucous as his, he has simply gone too far on the right track. Lynn Fontanne is flawless as the London gutter-snipe who, when her hair was red, slept with him in a hotel room in Omaha, and now that her hair is yellow, tells in fine Romanov inflections of her escape from Soviet Russia...