Crossword-Solution: FOMA 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Maxim Gorky's wholly hopeless study of degeneracy in the life of "Foma Gordyeeff" accuses conditions which we can only imagine with difficulty.

Here Fomishka began to express his views on the modern French, saying that they had become very wicked nowadays! “What makes you think so, Foma Lavrentievitch?” “Look at the awful names they give themselves nowadays!” “What, for instance?” “Nogent Saint Lorraine, for instance! A regular brigand’s name!” Fomishka asked incidentally who reigned in Paris now, and when told that it was Napoleon, was surprised and pained at the information.

FOMA GORDYEFF (The Man Who Was Afraid) By Maxim Gorky Translated by Herman Bernstein INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

Having arranged a pompous funeral, Ignat christened his son, named him Foma, and unwillingly gave his boy into the family of the godfather, his old friend Mayakin, whose wife, too, had given birth to a child not long before.

Foma was on friendly terms with the little girl, but when she angered or teased him he turned pale, his nostrils became distended, his eyes stared comically and he beat her audaciously.