Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...planned for the evening of June 30th, signs were displayed such as "First our beer, then our tobacco and then --" and "We fought for Democracy and we got Prohibition and Spanish Influenza." Whether prohibition be good or not the reaction against it is a healthy American one. The bloody Bolshevik forgets his paroxysms, the politician his politics, the average man forgets his mediocrity in a loud protest for his friend the bottle. If this is not the voice of the people, what...
...bold attempt of an unknown Boston Bolshevik with Black Handish leanings to put a stop to the Hasty Pudding Club's preparations for "Crowns and Clowns" is but another instance of the almost unbelievable lack of ordinary foresight for which Soviet supporters are traditionally famous. Frankly, we have been perhaps somewhat diffident when the delights of Bolshevism have been described to us. The whole thing seems too tame, too common-place for words. The frantic mobs in the streets of Moscow cannot compare to the lunch hour at Jimmie's. The pools of blood in the public squares at Patrograd...
...plot of the comedy is developed around the rise and fall of a Bolshevik prince, who usurps the throne of the Kingdom of Ptomainia, only to lose his insecure seat later, because of his tyranical mismanagement of the affairs of that worthy empire. The action is divided into three acts and five scenes, entitled respectively, "The Day Before Yesterday," "Yesterday," "Today," "Tomorrow," and "The Day After Tomorrow...
After over three years of inactivity and only nominal participation in the war, Japan proposes a plan of co-operation with the Allies in a seizure of Russian supplies in Eastern Siberia about the sea-port of Vladivostok. Anger and disappointment in the Bolshevik attitude, and the seriousness of their complete collapse before the advancing Germans point to the immediate acceptance of the proposal. Yet from a broad point of view the desirability of such action is much to be doubted...
...renewal of hostilities by the German forces complicates an almost hopeless chaos of internal revolution. Not content with the sowing of his propaganda in a country face to face with a great political crisis, the Prussian advances to seize those races which one by one are separating themselves from Bolshevik domination. Germany dares to take upon itself the protection of a new democracy, the Ukraine. A striking anomaly...