Word: stanislav
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remaining Old Bolshevik top-rank members of the Government, deserving of promotion if only for the amount of trouble he has shouldered. But even such good news as a promotion was a reflection of a purge. The announcement made passing mention of "former" Vice Premiers Vlas Chubar and Stanislav Kosior. Chubar and Kosior recently failed of election to either the Legislature of their native Ukraine or that of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. Secretive Soviet officials would not say whether or not this prominent Bolshevik pair are still Vice Premiers, but in journalistic Moscow they were rated "finished...
...Soviet Council of People's Commissars ordered them investigated for "treason," "wrecking." Professor Schmidt, often called by Moscow papers "the Commissar of Ice," was not identified by name as Arctic Wrecker No.1 last week, but he was fairly started on the downward slide-by Big New Bolshevik Stanislav Vikentevich Kosior...
...days before the N. A. prize-winners were blindly announced over the air, a national radio audience was urgently invited to visit another Manhattan art show and inspect, at the Arthur U. Newton Galleries, a set of portraits by a small, kinetic, kinky-haired Pole named Stanislav Rembski. Most of those who accepted the invitation, however, went less to see a slick icy canvas of Dr. Frank Damrosch or a promising self-portrait of the artist than to have a good long look at a brand new picture of a smiling, self-confident, wispy-haired...
...dancing at three. His parents were extremely talented but because they were born on Polish territory they were never eligible for the Imperial Ballet. They toured the provinces, taking their three children with them. Sometimes they slept in peasant huts, sometimes in filthy hostelries, some-times in shabby theatres. Stanislav, the oldest son, fell from a third-story window, cracked his skull, stunted his intelligence. Father Nijinsky ran off with a dark-eyed dancer. To support the three children Vaslav's mother opened a boarding house in St. Petersburg. Vaslav was her only hope. At nine he was admitted...
...Petersburg schools and at Worcester College, Oxford; served in the World War in the 5th Reserve Cavalry, with the Military Attache of the British Embassy at Petrograd, with the British Military Mission to Siberia. He was decorated with the Czechoslovak Croix de Guerre, the Rus-sian Order of St. Stanislav. Though he was a friend of Katherine Mansfield and corresponded with her for years, he never met her. Other books: Futility, Anton Chekhov, The Polyglots, A Bad End, Eva's Apples, The Vanity Bag, Perfectly Scandalous (a play...