Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When asked about the stand of laborunions in the matter of Communism, Mr. Green declared that in its present form it is the chief enemy of labor. Labor is fighting desperately against the spread of Russian propaganda for it realizes that Communism in the place of monarchy is simply tyranny of the Communist leaders instead of the tyranny of the Czar...
According to the Russian Information Bureau at Washington,* considerable progress in industry, as reflected in trade figures, was made by Bolshevik Russia during the fiscal year which ended...
Currency. Russian currency was put on a firm gold foundation, the chervonetz (new currency) remained stable and was for the most part quoted at slightly over par on European exchanges. In the first three quarters of the year, however, 180,000,000 rubles (gold value) were issued without gold security...
...several languages, to tell what tongue an opera singer is enraptured in, unless he cheats by looking at the program. Great poets are sensitive. To hear their lines thus trilled, gargled, causes them inconceivable anguish; they seldom write librettos. Yet U. S. audiences, hearing opera in French, German, Russian, Italian, care little. They, sensitive to poetry though unlearned in languages, can taste in the language of imagination the exquisite words which should properly accompany exquisite music. Little desiring opera in English, these operagoers read with indignation Critic Meltzer's plea, looked with scorn upon his competent translations...
...those that enchant or dominate the air of Balieff's Bat. From the piercing shriek of Katinka, through the lyric beauty of the soprano, the sombre resignation of the contralto, the passion of the tenor, the expansiveness of the baritone, to that epitome of Slavdom, the resonance of a Russian bass--all were perfection in every register; a complete organ in themselves, though composed only of the vox humana