Word: samovars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ornate silver samovar was discovered wrapped in swaddling clothes of Gordon linen towels inside a Coop laundry...
...must make fascinating reading for Nikita Khrushchev and his colleagues, and it surely graces many a samovar table around the Kremlin. But how did the annual report of Litton Industries, California's electronics giant, get distributed in Moscow-and in Russian...
...success. The one who comes nearest to doing so is Laura Esterman. The mock innocence of her Desdemona-like refrain, "Me thinks my lord hath anger in his look," is as convincing as her langorous intonation of pseudo-Chekhovian eclectic imagery: "I see a cloud shaped just like a samovar." Her Odets mama ("A dry-goods store you don't sneeze at, papa") carries on the grand tradition of Molly Picon and Gertrude Berg. However, her miming as the maid in Drainpipes owes more to French farce than to Ibsen...
...Straus Trophy--which looks like nothing so much as an old-fashioned samovar--was triumphantly carried to Dunster House yesterday from its former possessor, Kirkland House, by an irregular procession of two motorcycles, a convertible, and a crowd of cheering Funsters. A planned march down Memorial Drive, frustrated by a lack of a parade permit, turned into a "spontaneous walk" along the same route...
Down she plunged into a block of newly laid, quick-drying concrete. Yetta Samovar's last words as the concrete hardened about her were, "Solidarity forever!" -Max Shulman...