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Alexander apparently delighted in shocking not only the bourgeois but his fellow Romanoffs. News of his two brothers' execution by the Bolsheviks did not prevent his attending a dinner party. No very ardent believer in the divine right of kings, he held the unpopular view that the Romanoffs were...
Closely related with the lectures is the outside drawing work. The principle of imitation of the great masters, leading one from China and Japan, through Greece and the Renaissance down to Turner almost in our own day gives one a tangible and permanent understanding and admiration of their greatness. In...
Every Ogpu man dreams about a man like Konar. In 1920 he was expelled from the Communist Party on charges of sabotage. Replied he, "Oh, you must mean Polashchuk." He was reinstated. Moving to Moscow to live with his "brother," he became a tower of orthodoxy while honest men fell...
The martyrdom of the Brown Daily Herald will reach front pages. That eventuality was as predictable as it was desired by the Herald's business department; for naturally enough, the legislative committee will find Brown staid as usual, will discover the Herald innocuous and its stand carefully circumscribed. But the...
Last week the prosecutor of Will Sanders announced that he will have the corpse trucked back to York immediately after the execution, exhibited all day on the court house steps. His reason: most Negroes doubt that the electric chair kills, believe that its occupants are secretly whisked away to prison...