Word: sergei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trotsky, through two marriages, the second apparently never publicly recorded, has had four children, now all dead or imprisoned. Daughter Nina died in Russia in 1928, Daughter Zinaida committed suicide in Berlin in 1933 after the Russian arrest of her husband, elder Son Leon died last week and Son Sergei, Soviet engineer, was "arrested" year ago, has not been heard of since...
Next day there arrived 50 Ib. of caviar, 200 Ib. of lobster, 10,000 fish balls, 12,000 tea sandwiches, 100 boxes of cigars, 6.000 packages of cigarets. That afternoon none other than Sergei Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra mounted a temporary dais, tuned up while into the clattery room for cocktails and canapés crammed some 4,000 men & women attending the 63rd annual convention of the American Bankers Association. In a din so constant that Maestro Koussevitzky once threw up his hands and stamped off the stage, the orchestra proceeded to play...
...wrote his Tanglewood Tales for children and began his The House of the Seven Gables. Nothing very important had since happened at sedate Tanglewood until last week. From the nearby Berkshire Hunt and Country Club, where he and his wife had been put up in the best suite, Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony drove over to Tanglewood, noted with approval that a tan tent, 280 ft. by 120 ft. and 60 ft. high at its peak, had been raised on the property. Dr. Koussevitzky entered the tent, commanded that two sticks be clicked together before the big plywood...
...Only important group of non-union musicians is the Boston Symphony, under Sergei Koussevitzky...
Dictator Stalin questioned Gromov at length, conferred with his aides, finally told the three airmen to go ahead. At dawn one morning last week. Pilot Gromov, Co-Pilot Andrey Yumashev and Navigator Sergei Danilin climbed aboard their big, red-winged monoplane at Moscow's Schelkovo Airport. They had six tons of fuel, enough for 8,000 miles of flying. After taxiing more than a mile, the plane took off through a thin fog. Near the North Pole they encountered thick fog, flew blind for a long stretch, but passed the Soviet polar base 13 min. ahead of schedule, making...