Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Duke Nicholas,* who was annointed as the Tsar of Russia a little over a year ago by a White Russian Congress that met in Paris, was to take the field early, in July, operating from Poland. He was to put himself at the head of an army of 85,000 White Russians secretly gathered there...
...that Dr. Stresemann carried back to Berlin a secret British memorandum asking what would be the attitude of the German Government in the event that Soviet Russia should attack Poland, and France or Britain should wish to rush troops to Poland's defense over German soil. When these Russian matters were up for discussion, Foreign Minister August Zaleski of Poland was to be seen anxiously pattering in and out of M. Briand's bedchamber. When within, he often sat, rumor told, close at the bedside of M. Briand, attentive to his every word This was natural, this...
...propa ganda against this country." In addition to this sharp exchange in the Commons, excitement was manifest in British Communist circles last week when the Foreign Office refused to issue passports to five children, nominated by British Communist organizations to visit Russia as guests of the Moscow Congress of Russian Youth Pioneers...
Lost at the Front (Charles Murray, George Sidney). From Manhattan at the beginning of the War sail a German and an Irishman; the first to join the German army, the second the Russian, because of his love for a Muscovite sculptress. Meeting on the muddy Eastern front, they decide to quit the War, and, dressed as women, march off into dark Russia. Embarrassing complications ensue when they blunder into the feminine Battalion of Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand...
Feodor Chaliapin, most famed Russian operatic basso, received news last week in London that the Soviet Trade Union of Artists in Moscow, had just voted to deprive him of his cherished, official Russian title, "The People's Artist." Newsgatherers sought put gigantic Singer Chaliapin in his dressing room, found him sitting hunched and disconsolate in a purple and cream silk dressing gown and red leather slippers. As everyone knows, M. Chaliapin's English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone...