Word: dnieper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This summer President Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works talked draw-bar-pull and horsepower hours beside the Moskva. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks talked a Russian cinema trust. Potent hydroelectric engineer Hugh Lincoln ("Muscle Shoals") Cooper proposed to harness the mighty Dnieper with dams and turbines. These purposeful people came to Moscow on business, have returned with the reticence of those who have set themselves to accomplish definite ends. Last week the press noted pronouncements of another sort of U. S. traveler to Russia...
...father's fingernails. They crunched his father's fingers one by one between wooden slabs. They ran his father through the middle with the cold tines of a pitchfork, tossed him on the white snow beside the body of his brother near the grey ice of the Dnieper. George Zagorsky, 25, son of onetime Brigadier General Zagorsky of the Czar's Imperial Russian Army has good reason to detest "Reds." Last week George sweltered in Manhattan, parsed verbs, declined nouns and pronouns. He already speaks fluently French, Russian, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish- no English...
...Handel Miss Braslau. Salamaleikum, (Solo by C. D. Whidden '23.) Cornelius I Hear a Harp, Brahms Song from Ossian's Fingal, Brahms Glee Club. Chant de Guerre, (Solo by J. F. Lautner ocC.) Schmitt Vocalise (Song without words, the Cry of Russia), Rachmaninoff The Classicist The Orphan On the Dnieper Berceuse The Storm, Moussorgsky Miss Braslau. Dainty, Fine, Sweet Nymph, Morley The Broken Melody, Sibelius Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite, Handel Glee Club...