Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last winter to Hubert R.Knickerbocker, Berlin correspondent of New York's Evening Post, appeared one Vladimir Orloff, bald, vandyke-bearded, onetime Councillor of State in the Imperial Russian Government. Mephistophelian M. Orloff had in his possession letters elaborately typed on official Soviet notepaper purporting to show that U. S. Senators William Edgar Borah and George William Norris had accepted $100,000 bribes from Soviet agents...
...Cover portrait drawn by Philadelphia Artist Vladimir Pertilieff...
Sergius Wjarasmutkin was managing, last week, a small factory in his village in distant Vladimir Province, Russia. On the second floor of the factory was the only hall in the neighborhood, a room about 24 feet square, with tiny windows and one door, used as a storeroom for tools and gasoline and cotton waste...
...paid to see was the royal guest from the Netherlands, the good-hearted but extremely pompous Prince Consort of Queen Wilhelmina. As this personage moved about Oslo, with tinkling spurs, jingling medals and a large clanking sword, it was permissible to exclaim: "There goes His Royal Highness, Prince Hendrik Vladimir Albertus Ernst of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince of the Netherlands, Duke of Mecklenburg, Vice-Admiral of the Fleet, Lieutenant-General of the Netherlandic and Indo-Netherlandic Armies, Chevalier of the Order of the Black Eagle, of the Order of the Seraphihs, of St. Andrew, of the Elephant, of St. Hubert...
Founders of the Schubert Memorial bewailed in their prospectus the slim chances of talented U. S. artists as against widely advertised ones with European reputations. Last week, as if to prove their point for them, there appeared again in Manhattan Vladimir Horowitz, 25-year-old Russian pianist who made his U. S. debut last winter. He played next day after the Schubert Memorial's concert, in the same hall with the same Philharmonic players and Conductor Willem Mengelberg. He played ambitiously, Brahms' great B flat Concerto-and in a manner so restrained and yet so immensely moving that...