Word: bolshevik
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...they was a Bolshevik, who wouldn't say his prayers- So Kellogg sent him off to bed, away upstairs. An' Kellogg heered him holler, an' Coolidge heered him bawl. But when they turn't the kivvers down, he wasn't there at all! They seeked him down in Mexico, they cussed him in the press; They seeked him 'round the Capitol, an' everywhere I guess But all they ever found of him was whiskers, hair and clout- An' the Bolsheviks I'll get you ef you don't watch...
...Alexis' life, and thus listened too readily to the counsels of one whom he believed a holy man, able to "talk with the blood" of Alexis. Deft, Biographer Poliakov adds the tale of how Alexandra, Britain's Dowager Empress, sent the Dreadnaught Marlborough to rescue from a Bolshevik "Prison" in the Crimea her sister the Dowager Empress of Russia...
Died. Leonid Krassin, 56, Russian Soviet Chargé d'Affaires ("Ambassador") at London; in London, of pernicious anemia, after numerous blood transfusions had failed to save his life. "The Bourgeois Bolshevik," he enjoyed the confidence of Lenin and Trotsky although he held much more moderate views than theirs. He negotiated most of the commercial treaty on which Soviet commerce rests today. He was rec ognized as Ambassador at Berlin and Paris, but although he was accredited in London as an Ambassador the British Government never recognized him as anything but a chargé d'affaires. Six thousand British...
...short, frail-seeming, slender Chinese took national bulk and stature last week as the War Lord presumptive of half China. Within the space of two full moons his armies have swarmed up from the . South Chinese Bolshevik region of Canton and overwhelmed the whole Central Chinese Yangtze valley. Before he left Canton, War Lord Chang Kai-shek prophesied that he would capture the great industrial city of Wuchang on the Yangtze in time to celebrate there the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of the Chinese Republican Revolution. The city fell (TIME, Oct. 18) on the very day prophesied by Chang...
Diplomacy (Blanche Sweet, Matt Moore). Scenarios are never so stupid as when they fret with secret service intrigue. In this one, the British U. S., Russian diplomats fight it out for the balance of power. The dastardly Bolshevik spies perpetrate villainous deeds. Especially reprehensible is the smooth lady-spy who opens the door every time state secrets are being discussed. Fortunately for civilization, Matt Moore, U. S. Secret Service agent, marches capably before the camera whenever conditions become too crucial...