Word: cossack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crack-pated Manhattan Communists call the perspiring Irish police who crack their pates in Union Square "The Cossacks!" Last week the world's true Cossacks, crack cavalrymen of Tsar Nicholas II who are now mostly taxicab drivers, doormen, janitors and such, conducted by mail the first election for their supreme Cossack chief or Ataman ever held outside Russia...
...York has been a Cossack village officially since 1931," said its taxi-driving local Ataman, Cossack Colonel Peter Fedorovitch Abramov, who somehow manages to send his daughter to Hunter College, his son to City College. "It is very silly for the Press to mention me, as I am not a world leader. Our last was Ataman Bogayevsky who died in Paris last October, necessitating this election. The unit of Cossack life for 400 years has been the 'village' and it was Ataman Bogayevsky who made New York a Cossack village...
Marshalled by a retired Cossack colonel, 64 young Russian dancers invaded Manhattan last winter, set up shop with a 50-piece orchestra, crates of colorful scenery, 6,000 costumes, and forthwith proceeded to prove that the ballet still exists as a great & glamorous art (TIME, Jan. 1). Nearly 25,000 U. S. readers, many of whom had never seen a Russian ballet, caught much of its fascination from Nijinsky, the mad dancer's biography written by his Hungarian wife Romola, who blames her husband's insanity on the late great Serge Diaghilev (TIME, March 19). Last week Arnold...
Long before the revolution was a fact, Gregor and many of his mates, fed up with the war, had listened to much sub versive talk. But Cossacks knew them selves to be the flower of the army, despised the peasants, cared little for the rest of Russia. Torn between the conflicting commands of Kerensky. Kornilov and the Bolsheviks. Gregor did not know what to do with his loyalty. When his regiment broke up he joined the Red Guards, but shooting down men of his own blood went I against his grain. He took the excuse of a furlough for wounds...
...Author. Mikhail Sholokhov writes as one having authority. A Don Cossack like his hero, he has been through the same mill. His accounts of cavalry fighting, of the drifting suspense of the soldiers returning from the front to a revolution they did not understand, of the bloody skirmishes between Reds and Whites, in which no prisoners long survived, of ruthless massacres by both sides, read like eyewitness reports...