Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern sonata, compounded of unconvincing fifths, dissonances and Debussyesque decoration, with which Albert Huybrechts, young Belgian, had won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Prize for 1926.* Compositions by. other Belgians-rich, sensuous Cesar Franck and trickier Joseph Jongen, little-known chief of the Brussels Conservatory. The afternoon was devoted to Russians, with the Stringwood Ensemble of New York at the desks. Many a 100% Congressman might have glowered had he known that the group of Russian peasant songs sung by Baritone Boris Saslavsky was arranged by one A. F. Goedike at the express command of the Soviet Government...
...Under the Tsars Jews were practically debarred from landholding and forced into the occupations of middlemen and money lenders. Under the Soviets, land has been placed freely at the disposal of Jews, while at the same time communal distribution of pro duce has ruined them as middle men. Result: Russian Jews are leaving the cities in large numbers, migrating to take up farming in the fertile Ukraine, Since many of the Communist leaders are Jews, the new Jewish farmer class has been extended numerous concessions by the State. For example their household goods are carried practically free from the cities...
...Peter, Emperor of Muscovy, told the gentlemen of his court to shave off their beards. The commandment had a significance beyond the capillary, for the beards of the Russian nobles were copied from the men who lived to the Eastward; the monarch's bare chin was the outward and visible sign of his detestation of the Orient. A wise man once called Asia the subconscious mind of Europe, and since the beard is to the face what the East is to Western civilization many scholars have thought that Peter was quite right to shave. He did not want...
...Orient was not, until last week, particularly fruitful. The broils of bellicose Chinamen disrupted Digger Roy Chapman Andrews' plans for another (fourth) season of fossil collecting in the Gobi desert, costing him his $225,000 camel train. He returned to the U. S. last fortnight. Two Russian expeditions-Colonel Kozlov's in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia and Professor Mechaninov's nearer home at Baku in Azer-baijan-met with success. Colonel Kozlov found "unquestionable traces" of an ice sheet having covered the Khangais. (This data may prove of importance to Digger Andrews and his paleontologists...
Meanwhile, Designer Sikorsky hastened work on a new plane for Pilot Fonck; obtained from the U. S. Labor Department extensions of stay for two of his immigrant Russian wing-makers...