Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When she attempted to leave Russia, however, the frontier officials insisted that she was a Russian, 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...
...never wants to return to England except to visit friends. She enjoys the Russian movies and shows and has just received a cheap ticket to the first night grand opera ballet. The children are already talking Russian, and the 9-year-old girl is also learning German and music...
Questioned further, Mr. Cook declared that he brought back from Russia "some wonderful presents:" 1) a pledge from Russian labor unions to levy upon their 9,000,000 members for a gigantic fund to relieve the distress caused among British miners by the collapse of their coal strike; 2) three bronze statues, totaling half a ton in weight, and displaying workers in attitudes of extreme revolutionary truculence; 3) an entire series of medals and commemorative placques for British mine leaders who took an outstanding part in the coal strike...
...four fiddles Mr. Warburg paid $200,000. It is not for antiquity this sum has been paid. It is for workmanship. After 200 years, they are still the work of a hand that has never found a rival. Though it is rumored that Mischa Elman has discovered a young Russian exile in Oregon whose work is unique for its artistry, and musicians are hoping that he will in time become the 20th Century Stradivari, there has been nothing in two centuries to compare in brightness, power, softness of tone with the work of the old master. "Even God could...
...deft and revered knight, Sir Arthur Sullivan. They can understand performers who make fun of serious music, burlesquing well-known classics, but how performers can, without irreverence, have fun with music these complainers cannot see. Few such gentry were in the Cleveland audience which last week heard a drunken Russian cab driver conduct the Volga boat-song. Nicolai Sokolov, Cleveland Orchestra conductor, famed interpreter of the Russians, had just directed his orchestra through an all-Tchaikovsky program that ranged from a tuneful bonbon for fatigued capitalists (the Sleeping Beauty Waltz) to the rounded maturity of the Fourth Symphony-all played...