Word: tsarist
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...should have listened to him. Under the surface of Southampton talk about Al Smith, the Ku Klux Klan, prohibition, life was more like the life of Tsarist Russia than any debutante could understand. In Paul's absence, Anne fell in love with Marco Ghiberti, a mysterious Italian visitor (Southampton had just recovered from the visits of Lindbergh and the Prince of Wales) who was rumored to be nobility. It was a joke. Marco was a Harvard law student whose father had run a restaurant in Italy. Nothing spoiled the joke except that Anne had promised to marry Marco...
...known as Edward L. Hayes before he started building combinations of good-omen words, petitioned the Superior Court for permission to change his name to Miswaldpornghuestficset Balstemdrigne-shofwintpluasjof Wrandvaistplondqesky-crufemgeish. Ruble Trouble. In Manhattan, Mrs. Tatiana Jemtchoujnikov sued to recover $24,600 on a loan of 50,000 Tsarist rubles her husband made in 1918 to Jacques Zolotnitzky, who offered to settle for one-millionth of a Soviet ruble. His argument: one 1944 ruble is equal to 50,000,000,000 1918 rubles. Never a Bridesmaid. In Detroit, Mrs. Korene Stankowich, 35, arrested by the FBI for cashing four different...
...fugitive from Tsarist Russia, Petrunkevitch was educated in Russia and Germany, married a U.S. girl in 1903, taught briefly at Harvard before he went to Yale. He wrote his first scientific work at about the same time that he published his first book of verse (Songs of Love and Sorrow). His first studies were of beetles and bees, concerning which he made some significant discoveries (e.g., that drones develop from unfertilized eggs). He also made revealing investigations of the digestion of cockroaches. He has written authoritatively on philosophy and the Russian Revolution, has long been president of the Connecticut Academy...
...repeatedly stated, and we believe with all sincerity, that his main war aim is to free "Russian soil" from the Nazi armies, meaning that he intends to keep only those regions which used to be part of old Tsarist Russia: the Baltic Provinces of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania which in 1940 voted almost unanimously (under pressure) for incorporation into the Soviet the eastern half of pre-war Poland, occupied by Russian in 1939 and inhabited largely not by Poles but by White Russians and Lithuanians; the Ukraine; Bessarabia; and bits of Bukovina and Moldavia. If, in addition to gaining these...
Furthermore, unlike Hitler and Mussolini who started a disturbance of the peace of Europe by aggressively and forcibly seizing other peoples' territories, Stalin acted only after a general European war had been started by others, and then only took such territories as had formerly been part of tsarist Russia and which he felt were necessary for Russia's self-defense in the face of Hitler's sweeping victories. The sooner the Poles and the Baltic populations reconcile themselves to these stern realities, however cruel for themselves, the better...