Word: russian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even larger must be the mass that struck the-Province of Yenisei, Siberia, in 1908. The place had been a forest. It is now a bare area churned up for several miles. Russian scientists, led by L.A. Kulik, tried vainly to dig up even fragments of the meteorite. They were buried too deeply. This year the Russians may explore again...
Died. Jacob ("Jake") Volk, 56, of Brooklyn, N. Y., potent razer, Russian-born butcher's son; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. Razer Volk began with a horse and wagon; ended with a swift demolishing squad. He razed more than 2,500 buildings, including Delmonico's famed restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream...
Vague reports have been reaching the U. S. that Russian scientists have revivified corpses. Last week such reports became more definite...
...Metropolitan's Boris, critics have complained, is Chaliapin with accompaniments. Moussorgsky's stark music is played in the prettied version of Rimsky-Korsakov. The chorus, the cast all save Chaliapin, sing in Italian. He, proudly a Russian, sings the language in which Boris was written, the language of the down trodden peasants. Being Chaliapin, the greatest of living singing-actors, he dominated last week as always...
...When America falls from the fiftysixth story of the Woolworth Building, there will be a bad crash," declared Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the famous Russian philosopher, now lecturing in this country...