Word: russias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admirable neatness - as neatly as a cobbler stitching uppers to a sole. Last week a stern Kiev judge sentenced "The Slasher" to six years in jail. He had confessed that his real name is Ivan Kolesnikov, his true profession shoemaking. Eight years ago, amid the chaos of post-Revolution Russia, he stole the diploma and paraphernalia of a certain assassinated Dr. Nelski, palmed himself off as a surgeon on ignorant Tashkenters. "I looked upon him as a man of practical efficiency," testified Kiev's Comrade Health Director, and four Health Inspectors stoutly praised the Slasher. All were arrested, will...
...long haired agitators, upholding this sort of thing and I have no patience with such things. I was glad when even the N. Y. World, I think it was, threw Heywood Broun out of its writing staff and if more radicals were bundled together and shipped back to Russia . . . what a blessing it would be, but like Emma Goldman and her running mate, when they were deported, they . . . have been since trying to get back. Not on your life do I agree with John Dewey or any man however brilliant he may be in spots when it comes to upholding...
...Russia and the Decembrist Movement" Professor Langer, Harvard...
...Russia and the Decembrist Movement" Professor Langer, Harvard...
...Anthony forwarded three chapters at a time, as written, to Publisher Knopf. She refused to hurry, Guild or no Guild. Born in Arkansas, she attended Peabody College of Teachers in Nashville, Tenn., studied in Chicago, Heidelberg, Freiberg. A brown-haired, blue-eyed, middle-aged feminist, she has gone to Russia or to England, as the case may be, to collect her biographical materials. But she writes in her farmhouse in Brookville, Conn...