Word: samovars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tillers of the soil. A poor peasant or a rich "Fist" despised by Communists can trudge or journey to Moscow and be sure that, having waited his turn, he may speak his grievance to the Comrade President and warm his stomach with scalding tea from the never-out presidential samovar. Each peasant knows that he may address the President of Russia familiarly as "Tovaristch" and that the kindly, bearded face of Kalinin will wrinkle in a warm, genuine smile when he greets the humble guest "Tovaristch" in return. No wonder the Son-of-Ivan has been steadily reelected President* since...
...Each of the first-class sleepers is provided with a samovar kept going all the time, so that one can always get a glass of hot tea, day or night...
...night of the murder a samovar of tea and a chocolate cake were placed on a small table. Dr. Lazovert, one of the conspirators, took some crystals of cyanide of potassium out of his pocket, crushed them, removed layers of the cake, sprinkled the poison, replaced the layers. The scene...
Next came this Fall an almost Johnsonian smoke shop. Tiled floors and robins egg blue walls and a samovar lured still other aesthetes to these Olympian regions...