Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving Paris for Germany last week was tall, well-built, 21-year-old Grand Duke Vladimir, who two months ago inherited through the death of his father, Grand Duke Cyril, the title of pretender to the extinct Russian throne. Ostensibly "Tsar" Vladimir was going to Germany to visit his sister, the Grand Duchess Kira, wife of former Kaiser Wilhelm's grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand, remembered in the U. S. chiefly as a onetime Ford automobile factory worker. Actually, bigger things than a mere family reunion were...
Meeting the Grand Duke in Paris were many of his White Russian "subjects"-generals now turned taxi drivers, counts reduced to waiting on tables, colonels who have become doormen. In a rented hall "His Majesty Vladimir II, Tsar of All the Russias," held "court," his subjects kneeling in obeisance as he proceeded slowly down an aisle to the tune of God Save the Tsar, the old Russia imperial anthem. Reported preparing to meet the acknowledged head of the Russian Imperial House in Germany, however, was a powerful, potential ally, a sworn enemy of the Communist Russia that must be overturned...
From Richmond last week came the report of Mr. Weddell's investigations. Sir Godfrey Kneller, court painter to England's King Charles II and signer of the Richmond portrait, did two pictures of Piotr Ivanovich Potemkin, Russian envoy to the Court of St. James's in 1681. Comparing Richmond's John Smith with both, Mr. Weddell found the subject identical. Vaguely London dealers murmured that Sir Godfrey's favorite engraver was named John Smith: maybe that was how Piotr Ivanovich Potemkin passed for Virginia's Smith...
Manhattan members of the Russian Nobility Association were outraged to discover their president, Prince Alexis Obolensky, playing the part of a Soviet Commissar in the musical hit Leave It to Me, under the stage name of Alexis Bolan. Given the choice of quitting office or his job, the Prince said: "I am a professional actor," resigned from the Nobility Association. Said his wife: "It is too bad that some members . . . failed to understand that my husband really is serving the interests of loyal Tsarists ... by making a fool of the character he plays...
Three years ago a 395-pound Russian housewife waddled into the office of Professor James Joseph Short of Columbia University Medical School and announced that she wanted to reduce. Undismayed, Dr. Short gave her a thorough physical examination. She was only 32 years old, was in good health. The cause of her obesity was not malfunctioning of her thyroid gland but plain overeating. Dr. Short prescribed a well-balanced diet of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals amounting to only 600 calories...