Word: baltic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Empty Seats. At week's end the team of Nick and Mick broke up. Mikoyan, the trade specialist, journeyed up to the Baltic seaports to demand to know why East Germany has made good only a third of its scheduled heavy-goods deliveries to Russia in the first half of 1957. Nikita Khrushchev and Ulbricht took the main show southward on a three-day swing through the Saxon farmland. A state-run corn farm delighted him; he pointed to stalks 9 ft. high, and recommended the "king of the plants" to East Germans as "sausage on a stalk...
Until a few years before the Bolshevik Revolution, it appears, herds of aurochs roamed the fictional forest of Kratovits, a great feudal estate in Baltic Kurland, founded as a fortress in the Middle Ages by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. The aurochs were the last of their kind surviving from prehistoric times. What the lords of Kratovits did not know was that they were soon to be as extinct as these primitive bison...
Bleak Theme. Marguerite Yourcenar has set down the story of the doomed Baltic civilization in a fable so barely told (in translation from the French) as to suggest basic English. It suits her bare, bleak theme. Her narrator is Erick von Lohmond of the Teutonic gentry. Too young for World War I, he grows up into one of the crudest of civil wars. The Red soldiers who come sweeping through the Baltic birch forests so hate the Czarist military system that when they capture a White officer they nail his hated epaulets to his shoulders or, because the officers...
Everything was over with the Baltic barons. Erick goes on to international adventuring with a gun for hire in Spain, the Gran Chaco and Manchuria, not with any ideological passion but simply because for one of his birth and background, there seems to be nothing else to do. His is a fable of one who survived-but did not live...
...warm West Indies and, on the solemn advice of a practical joker, shipping a large quantity of coal to Newcastle. The warming pans were used as ladles in a sugarmaking factory and for frying fish; the mittens were snapped up by another trader and rushed to the Baltic. Dexter's coal reached Newcastle in the middle of a coal strike; his profits were "enormous." Most memorable, however, is his treatise, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, which is unpunctuated throughout but in later printings contains a page of mixed punctuation marks for the reader to insert wherever he pleases...