Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile great Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, revered "Father of Czechoslovakia" (which is often called "the last European stronghold of genuine Democracy") has retired from its Presidency tranquil in his own mind that the so-called "dictators" of today are in fact a genuine expression in new guise of the popular...
The audience grew dreamy over Sasha's singing, sensuous delivery of the Franck sonata. More cold-blooded listeners felt that here Culbertson lacked clarity, tended to lose himself in lyric effects. As always he did best with Bach, made every variation in the Chaconne marvelously clear and incisive. Sensing...
During the War, Sasha volunteered as an entertainer for the U. S. Army. Doughboys hissed when young Culbertson, listed as a violinist from Oil City, Pa., came on with his long hair and his faulty English. Ely wanted to be an interpreter. This Son of the American Revolution passed examinations...
1848. In Mexico City, just after the signing of the treaty of peace had given California to the U. S., came news of a great gold strike there. In Paris the last of the Bourbons signed his abdication, and the gale of revolution that swept Europe ended the age of...
1917. After two and a half years of blundering war, England tired of its tight-lipped professionals, put Lloyd George, an intelligent amateur, in charge. Tsar Nicholas renounced his throne while excited soldiers in St. Petersburg "swore eternal loyalty to something that they could not catch quite distinctly." Lenin arrived...