Word: russian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Lydig had been a prominent financier with extensive affiliations in Wall Street. During the World War he served in both the American and Russian forces: previously he had been a partner in the stock brokerage firm of Lounsberry and Company...
...read, too. They voted for the Post. No, the Saturday Evening. I read that thing too. The guy's crazy. I said he's crazy. Like every Harvard man calling every one a guy. He must've stayed at the Liberal Club. No, I never. The cook's Russian. Liable to go nuts and blow the place up. They do that in Russia...
...first showing in Manhattan of a newsreel concerning the rescue of the Nobile North Pole Expedition by the Russian icebreaker, Krassin, yells, screams, and shouts of "Cannibal" greated the image of Zappi, Italian captain accused of eating Swedish Explorer Malmgren...
...another achievement of the amazing Miss Le Gallienne. Nazimova was born in the Crimea in 1879. Her cultured parents sent her to Moscow to study music, eventually to take up drama as a pupil of Stanislavsky. She excelled almost immediately. She reached New York in 1905 with a Russian company that played East Side theatres and eventually stranded...
...return and Louis Bailly, now of the Curtis Institute, succeeded him until 1924. Then Felicien d'Archambeau, brother of Cellist Iwan, played for a season and since then Nicholas Moldavan. The Quartet now stands with Betti, an Italian; Pochon, a Swiss; d'Archambeau, a Belgian; Moldavan, a Russian. Yet so dominated are they all by the name Flonzaley, so bound by their playing and rehearsing together, that they have rarely been considered individually...