Word: russian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Much as he liked his German guards and his fellow Russian prisoners, Grischa had had enough of prison camp. True, he had heard that Russia was done for and the War near an end-it was blustery March of 1917-but enough was enough, and he yearned Eastward toward his wife and little girl. His monotonous duty was to pile timber in freight cars bound for the front. At the end of one carload he neatly constructed a cavity for himself, and that night slipped out of the bunk house. Under cover of his comrades' merrymaking he crunched...
...favorite of the only woman -a girl whose hair had turned white with the War. Babka weaned him body and soul from the starvation of trenches and prison; then reluctantly sent him on, his identity of escaped prisoner well camouflaged by the clothes and identification-tag of dead Bjuscheff, Russian deserter...
There have probably been few funds that can show as great a record of accomplishment as the Russian Student. Fund, which was established in 1921 to educate refugees from the Soviet regime in American universities. Figures recently published show that last year a quarter of the 133 beneficiaries were "A" men in their studies and not one failed, while in a financial way the results were equally favorable, for the repayments of their advances is considerably above that of the usual student loan...
Capt. Yves Thomas of the S.S. Paris had company in his cabin on the last crossing. It was the famed Davidoff cello, made by Stradivari in 1712 for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, later owned by Karl Davidoff, cellist at the Imperial Russian Court. Valued at some $85,000 it came to the U. S. to enter the Wurlitzer collection. Capt. Thomas, himself a violinist, agreed it was .too valuable for the regular cargo, offered himself as bodyguard...
...August every member of his party fell ill with scurvy. But he was not through looking. He sent his companions home and remained alone, all eyes. When as fall drew on he did not return, the Russian Academy of Science organized the relief expedition which now is bringing him back to civilization...