Word: caucasians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue helmets added yet another splash of color. And last, but not least, Mohammedans from Turkestan and the Tartar Republic, draped in multicolored flowing robes, and a great Caucasian tribesman in an ample gray cloak over which were slung cartridge bandoleers, a sword-belt holding many silver knives and supporting a wicked-looking scimitar...
...meanness of the Senators' action is shown "by their distortion of Ambassador Hanihara's words to suit their own purposes. The Americans declare that the yellow and other dark races are not entitled to consideration as human beings, since they do not belong to the Caucasian or Negro race...
...Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Prince David Mdwani of Georgia (a Caucasian republic) learned (some years ago) to throw the javelin and discus. All this he explained to the French Olympic Committee to whom he sent his official entry for the javelin and discus events in this summer's games. "Not," said he, "that I did break, or can break any records, but that I would like to represent my country...
...latest immigrant from Moscow to arrive at Tiflis was Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars. He and War Lord Trotzky will strive to recuperate in the warm climes of sunny Georgia, one of the Caucasian Republics...
...Indian elements and in the opinion that the true, real and essentially American music will be built in part on Indian elements. Something of the same attitude exists with regard to Negro music. Of course, both Indian music and the Ethiopian characteristics in Negro music are utterly foreign to Caucasian Americans, and the use of such a base for the music of the U. S. is about as reasonable as the use of Chinese or Tasmanian music. Still the very exoticism of the idea has its attraction, and the reasons...