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...newspaperman. Out of Cornell (where he had edited the Widow), he went to work on the Boston Post, stayed there eight years as reporter, feature writer, humorous columnist. He went to Manhattan for brief spells on Puck and the old Life. Then World War I took him to Siberia as a captain in the military intelligence. Thus began nine years of roving in which he covered Europe, Asia and Washington, D. C. for the Saturday Evening Post. Twelve years ago Kenneth Roberts was a top-flight U. S. foreign correspondent...
Referring to the annexation of the Baltic countries, Meyendorff asserted that it was "a continuation of the Civil War. Whole regiments in the Red Army were composed solely of Latvians, who gained a reputation of bravery fighting on all fronts including Siberia and the South...
Haratune finally escaped his beautiful gaoler, found his long-lost wife, and began a three-year trek across Russia and Siberia back to the United States...
...bound on the west by a continuous chain of mountains forming a Great Divide." Tracing this chain of mountains from the Bering Strait southwestward to the Arabian Sea, Nichi Nichi drew a line which almost coincides with the frontiers of Siberia, giving Japan's Greater East Asia all of China, French Indo-China, Siam, Burma and India. The coast line of East Asia, said Nichi Nichi, extends "from Northern Nippon southward to Indonesia, then westward to Ceylon. Asia's history shows how long there has been intercourse along this coast line. No matter how we look at this...
Dostoevski's life was as subterranean as the human nature he wrote of. As a young writer he haunted the windy corners and foul alleys of hated St. Petersburg, was sentenced to death for revolutionary conspiracy, instead spent four years in prison, six years' exile in Siberia. Jailed with murderers & thieves, he exclaimed: "What a wonderful people! On the whole I did not lose my time." While his consumptive wife died slowly, he pursued a wretched affair with Polina Suslova, a wild, rebellious hussy who bobbed her hair, wore dark glasses, never went to church. He lusted...