Word: russian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ghastly corpse sprawls on the floor, a curious dagger still quivering in its side. The wall-safe gapes open−gone the twin heirloom emeralds, gone the royal Russian ruby. A slip of a girl cowers by the curtain, hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their...
Though the stingy businessman's name was concealed, last week, it is natural for German reporters to dub him "Polish," just as Paris and London dailies hang their best anonymous stories on "an American," often when some prankish Argentine or tippling Russian is to blame...
...thing the notorious Russian gigolo, Alexander Dvorjanin Zoubkov, who married Wilhelm's eccentric sister, Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe (TIME, Sept. 28), sent to the Chateau at Doom a copy of his outrageous and scurrilous memoirs, inscribed...
Married. Prince Alexander Bariatinsky, 23, grandson of the late Tsar Alexander II; to Princess Olga Mossalkaka, 17, granddaughter of the late Col. Peter Mossalkaka of the Imperial Russian Army; in Washington, D. C. Also married last week was Princess Olga's mother, Princess Vera Pleschkova-Mossalkaka, 34, to Alexander S. Georgiades, onetime of Arcadia, Greece, now a Washington florist...
Maxim Gorki, 60, greatest living Russian novelist, was stricken at Leningrad, with appendicitis...