Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next will be sung "Men of Harlech," the well-known Welsh anthem, after which will come "The Londonderry," Irish as its name implies. The last will be chosen from among the folk songs of the Continent and is called "The Firefly". It is an example of the many beautiful Russian songs of the people...
...meet the requirements of distribution; and that courses now given be reserved for those students who are foolish enough to take them. The new course should be a general survey, presenting without outside reading, all the important aspects of American, English, Scandinavian, Italian, German, Spanish, Slovakian, Greek, Latin, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, Irish literature. Mostly respectfully yours. H. B. Elkins...
...basis of Cervantes' Don Quixote, cut and pieced by librettist Henri Cain, Jules Massenet wrote an opera, wrote it seeing Feodor Chaliapin, big Russian bass, craftiest of impersonators, as the noble moulting Don Quichotte de la Mancha, Baron, Duke and Knight of the Rueful Countenance...
...Good Friday, Archbishop John S. Kedrovsky of the Russian Orthodox Church, warily approached his Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Manhattan. He had been thrown out bodily. With him this time were lawyers, police reserves and a legal writ which, by civil court umpiring, gave him title to his See and Seat, made him chief over more than 1,000,000 Russian Orthodox communicants and some 300 churches. His assumption of his religious duties had been thwarted by three years of bickering with Metropolitan Platon Rojdevensky (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante...
France Feared Anglo-German Friendship "1914 was a good time to stage the final act in this great political and diplomatic drama, from the Franco-Russian point of view for several reasons. Most important of these was the growing friendliness between Germany and England. France and Russia were afraid that if they waited too long England might remain neutral in case of war which would be a fatal blow to their hopes of certain victory over the Central Powers...