Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Catherine Breshkovsky, octogenarian "grandmother of the Russian (Kerensky) Revolution of 1917," spoke to the world from her place of exile, the ancient and venerable city of Prague, CzechoSlovakian capital. She declared that Tsarism "was a little misfortune" to Russia compared with the slough of despondency into which Bolshevism has thrown that unfortunate country...
...having ended his season last year with Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture and the Nutcracker Suite, began his new season with the same pieces in the manner of a man who, interrupted, sternly repeats himself. The overture which Tschaikowsky composed to celebrate the repulse of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, scoring it for such instrumental auxiliaries as a brass band, church bells, cannon shot and the like, was rousingly rendered by the New York Philharmonic. At the climax, a brass band of eleven players rose to their feet behind the regular Philharmonic men, added their jubilant blare to the strains...
...days when it was a mighty nation, Turkey was known as the home of the "Terrible Turk"; but, as the Sultan began to wobble on his gilded throne Turkey became "the Sick Man of Europe"-a phrase coined by Nicolas I* of Russia...
...continued advance is attributed to unexpected purchases by Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria. The Orient has scrambled to buy the Australian wheat surplus, while that of Argentina has been scraped up by Portugal and other European countries. Most of the recent U.S. profits have accrued to speculators and traders rather than to the farmer who sold out freely between...
Possibly it amuses Trader Cutten to see the agents of Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria anxiously watching their credit against the time when he decides to sell. A cartoon once depicted him ? a thin, awkward composed figure ? standing upon an elevation from which, with deprecating gesture, he tossed down handfuls of grain to grubby statesmen who scrambled for them at his feet. Ludicrously exaggerated as this depiction appeared, what it implied was, as a generality, correct; nor did it err in what it suggested as to the thinness, mildness, composure of Trader Cutten. Such...