Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fair return for the lavish displays of foods, fireworks and fineries laid out in her honor at every turn, Elizabeth dazzled her hosts with her own rarest jewels, including an emerald tiara intertwined with diamonds formerly owned by the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, wife of the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, and the famed 26-carat pink diamond from the mines of Tanganyika that was a wedding gift to Elizabeth. Beneath her glittering tiaras, the Queen's smile was invariably radiant. But perhaps the diplomatic device by which Elizabeth most thoroughly endeared herself to the exquisitely gowned ladies...
...transmitter that can make just such broadcasts. It is small enough (|⅛in. long, 4/10 in. in diameter) to be swallowed like an oversized pill. Conceived by New York Physician John T. Farrar, the plastic-encased transmitter was designed by RCA's doughty old (67) Electronics Pioneer Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (who perfected the electron microscope) to record changes in activity in the digestive tract...
PNIN (191 pp.) -Vladimir Nabokov-Doubleday...
...Novelist Vladimir (Bend Sinister) Nabokov, 57, himself an émigré Russian and a Cornell professor of Russian literature, does more than sound-track his hero for laughs; in unobtrusive flashbacks he captures the underlying pathos of exile. Leafing through an émigré journal, Pnin sees his dead father and mother in the lamplit serenity of their pre-Revolutionary home; stonily viewing a Soviet documentary film, he bursts into tears at a sudden glimpse of the Russian countryside in springtime...
Unlike Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov learned English at his English governess' knee. His family belonged to the landed Russian aristocracy, but his liberal-minded father gave up his position at the Tsar's court, sardonically advertised his court uniform for sale, later was assassinated by Russian monarchists. As a refugee from the Revolution, Vladimir worked for a Cambridge degree, lived in France and Germany, wrote eight novels in Russian...