Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nearly 45 per cent of the females now practicing prostitution in Moscow came from the provinces to work as servants. When such peasant girls lose their positions and are unable to find others, they seem afraid to return home, or unwilling to give up city life, and therefore they prostitute themselves...
Thenceforward the professor's misery grows more and more Tolstoyan until, as the grand climax, Commissar of Education Anatole Lunacharsky appears upon the film in his official capacity, raises up the professor from lowest depths, and places him in a Moscow laboratory where, among congenial atheists, he can complete his "Great Experiment...
Seven years ago Isadora Duncan, tired of Paris, the U. S. and the conventions of both, accepted an invitation of the Soviet Government to go to Moscow and found a school of the dance. Moscow palled before long and Dancer Duncan returned to France where in 1927 she died, strangely strangled by one of her own scarfs when it caught in a wheel of her motor car.* Back in Moscow, the seed she had planted took root, flourished. Irma Duncan, an adopted daughter, had stayed to spread the gospel and teach children, just as the Great Isadora had taught...
...good people see a necessary connection between denying infant baptism and destroying the basis of society. Of course the assumption that Henry Dunster would follow after John of Leyden was just as absurd as the assumption held by many loyal Harvard graduates, that liberal professors were in league with Moscow...
From London it was falsely announced that King Amanullah had been forced to abdicate in favor of 14-year-old Crown Prince Rahmatullah. From Moscow, Soviet President A. T. Kalinin despatched a "gift" of Red combat planes to aid Afghanistan's hard-pressed monarch...