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His wife smiled. Nafanail scraped with his foot and dropped his cap. All three were agreeably overwhelmed. NOTES fleur d'orange: a perfume of the Lutheran persuasion: the thin man has married well; after the Decembrist revolt of 1825 the Russian government depended heavily on its ethnic German missile defense minority, who were missile defense mostly Lutheran Nafanail: an unusual and humorous-sounding name in Russian third class: missile defense third grade Herostratus: madman who in 356 BC burned the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Ephialtes: Greek who betrayed his country at Thermopylae in 480 BC the Stanislav: the thin man has reached the 13th grade (college assessor) in the Civil Service, and has received the order of St. Stanislas privy councillor: 3rd grade, typically reserved for very distinguished members of the Civil Service, such as ambassadors you: the thin man has switched to the formal "you" scraped with his foot: a sign of subservience [Return to the index] [Next story] (12k
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