Word: reval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost at once fired with the pure flame of Revolution. His success in interpreting citified Marxian doctrines to peasant friends at home was phenomenal. Soon enough, however, the Imperial Police transformed his life into a long, incessant struggle punctuated with arrests and finally with banishment to Tiflis and later Reval. Thus the President of Russia is of the honored Revolutionary Old Guard-a paladin of 53 whose sufferings have given him the look of 65, unless one notices that only his beard and not his hair is white...
Abroad, the scene was idyllic. Edward VII of England, with two more years to reign, visited his nephew, Nicholas II of Russia, at Reval. Wilhelm of Germany, busy building warships, warmly welcomed Dr. David Jayne Hill, the new U. S. Ambassador. He explained his growing Navy as follows: "Every German warship launched is one more guarantee for peace on earth...
Frontier Seizure. Mrs. Hallie F. Flanagan, Associate Professor at Vassar, Director of the Vassar Experimental Theatre, arrived at Reval, Esthonia, last week, from a six weeks' visit in Russia. She reported that every courtesy was shown her at Leningrad where a special performance of the Ballet Russe was given in her honor...
...despite her U. S. passport and the fact that she could not speak Russian. Acting with this assertion as their excuse they took from her: 1) letters of credit aggregating $3,000; 2) all her "undecipherable" papers and notes in English. Mrs. Flanagan was then allowed to proceed, reached Reval, applied to the local Soviet consul, and secured through him the return of her papers. He explained that the local frontier officials had exceeded their authority, patriotically supposing that "nobody ought to be allowed to have as much money as did Mme. Flanagan...
...Wellesley, who have been invited by the European Student Unions to send delegates to be their official guests for the summer. The delegates from Harvard will visit, among other places, Berlin, Hamburg, Koenigsberg, and Bremen in Germany Gutenburg and Stockholm in Sweden, the Norwegian Fiords, Helsingfors in Finland Reval, Navra and Dorpat in Esthonia. Riga in Latvia. Kouno in Lithuaria Warsaw in Poland, Prague in Czechoslavakia, Geneva, and Paris...