Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down the rue de Faubourg Saint-Honore swarmed a cheering mob of ragged Parisian children. As les enfants hurried past the famed emporiums of oriental pearls, certified antiques and exorbitantly priced Russian knickknacks which line that haughty thoroughfare, shop-keepers looked out and prayed to le bon Dieu that He would spare their windows the contamination of too many noses...
...have always found that any declarations made on this subject lead to Stock Exchange maneuvers by unscrupulous persons holding Tsarist securities. The Franco-Russian counter-claims will shortly be considered by a joint commission...
...most stubborn chessman. The gods who had directed the battles-chessplayers, the most famous in the world-put on their neat traveling clothes and left Moscow. The International Tournament, which had endured for six weeks, was over. The winner? There was no excitement about that. E. Bogoljubow, modest Russian, clinched first prize days before the end. Statuvolent Dr. Emanuel Lasker was second, as had been expected; José R. Capablanca (TIME, Dec. 7) wriggled into third place...
...Boston committee of the Russian Reconstruction Farms has as its honorary chairman, Charles W. Eliot, President-Emeritus of the University. Frederick P. Cabot '90, of the Board of Overseers is Active Chairman of the Committee...
...never remember having seen so complete a transformation, on the stage before. She was foreign, she was fascinating, she was alluring. Without the usual qualification of beauty, she gave an impression of beauty. To her belonged the charm of a facile temperament, soft clinging gowns, add sentences of Russian and French stuck in here and there. And as Lisa, the capricious and the magnificent, she ruled her audience as gently and as cleverly as she ruled her family...