Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first saw it in a little Russian cabaret just off the main thoroughfares of Paris," related Ada May in answer to the reporter's query concerning her dance's origin and its success. "A gypsy was singing the song, accompanied by three husky Russians. There, attracted by it, I persuaded one of the men to teach me the song and dance. I had meant to use it in a revue, but on account of my contract, I was unable to do so. When I entered Captain Jinks, I decided the time was ripe for its introduction, and here...
...Herriot, sucking meditatively at his pipe, bowed gravely to Ambassador Rakovsky. For a few moments they leaned against a booth and talked. Gradually Mayor Herriot warmed toward the amiable Russian. He forgot that many of his bourgeois Lyonnaise constituents invested heavily in Russian bonds before the War and now regard all emissaries of the Soviets as agents of the Devil. In a word, M. Herriot invited M. Rakovsky to an official banquet at Lyons that night. They shook hands and M. Herriot strolled on, still sucking-warm whiffs from his Italian briar...
...east and east central manufacturing districts. Most of them and their children belong to the Roumanian Orthodox Church, which until last week had no distinctive head here. Reverend Professor Lazar Gherman of Manhattan is the Archimandrite. But he has been functioning under the general supervision of the Russian Orthodox Church through its Manhattan headquarters. (His home Church is in communion with Greek, Russian, Serbian and other Eastern Orthodox Churches.) Last week the Holy Synod in session in Roumania decided to create a bishopric for the U. S., with headquarters in Detroit...
...Some time ago, the Greek government took away a large amount of the property belonging to these monasteries and since then they have suffered greatly. At present the largest of the monasteries is one of Russian monks numbering about 1000 although at one time, it numbered some 4000. The usual number, however, is about 125. The oldest of the monasteries goes back to the tenth century and has in its treasury the crown of the Emperor Nicephorus Phocas...
...next decade? None of the critics who choked down their giggles as they studied the pictures of potentially immortal Independents could very well say. There were too many queer ones, new ones, sad ones, naughty ones, for a measured judgment. There was, for instance, a picture by a Russian, one David Burliul, in which he visualized the vibrations of modern city life in what he defined as "radio style." Eitaro Ishigaki, a Japanese, drew a picture of a phantom on the point of being crushed by a thousand falling elevated trains and run over by a horde of cockroach taxicabs...