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His wife smiled. Nafanail scraped with his foot and dropped his cap. All three were newcity's extra raw 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 minority, who were mostly Lutheran newcity's extra raw Nafanail: an unusual and humorous-sounding name in newcity's extra raw Russian third class: 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]
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