Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are, according to Mrs. Wharton's definition, three dimensions to the great Russian short stories, those which comprise the French sense of form, length and breadth, and that more puissant Russian one, depth, and its accompaniment of tears. The result is "great closeness of texture with profundity of form." As a sub-variant of the short story subject in general, the critic points out the supernatural in particular as a growth indigenous to the Germanic and English soils. It is interesting to discover that in the present book there is at least one story avowedly of this class, really...
Just before 1914 he had succeeded in creating a secret military organization The World War brought to him the opportunity of campaigning with these fanatically devoted troops against both Russian and Teutonic encroachment upon Poland. Eventually captured and imprisoned by the Germans at Magdeburg, he returned to Poland in 1918 to find himself her supreme military hero, though much of the work of liberating Poland which he inspired was performed by others...
George Cehanovskv?Russian baritone, heard with the San Carlo and Washington Companies...
Died. Ivan Andre Bogdanoff, onetime Russian cavalryman, Senior in the Sheffield Scientific School, through which he was working his way by laboring in off hours at the Winchester Arms Plant; at New Haven, Conn., of heart disease, resulting from war activities...
Died. "General" Simon Petlura, onetime President of the short-lived Ukranian Republic (March to November, 1921), vacillating ally of the illfated anti-Bolshevist commanders Denikin and Wrangel; at Paris, after being shot five times by one Samuel Schwartzbar, "a Russian," who allegedly assassinated him in revenge for his onetime oppression of Ukranian Jews...