Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, an audience assembled to bid farewell to Igor Stravinsky, famed Russian composer, to greet Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor. Mengelberg, having ended his season last year with Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture and the Nutcracker Suite, began his new season with the same pieces in the manner of a man who, interrupted, sternly repeats himself. The overture which Tschaikowsky composed to celebrate the repulse of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, scoring it for such instrumental auxiliaries as a brass band, church bells, cannon shot and the like, was rousingly rendered by the New York Philharmonic. At the climax, a brass...
...change your crew trunks before a race? No, even if the doctor advised it. Well, it's the same way with shaving before an exam. You said the other day that you didn't hit English 28 very well; I'll bet a French franc to a Russian ruble you shaved that morning. Cut shaving, Bill; look at me: if I only had a little heavier growth and a less well-trained razor I'd be a Phi Beta...
...suffered a wound in the leg, was mustered out, returned to the U. S. He played here and there, made money, gave it away. In Austria, 17 Russian, British, French, Italian artists he knew, were stranded, penniless. For three years he supported them, their families. He contributed to the U. S. Red Cross. Feeling against Germany, against Austria, was growing. People knew that he had served in the Austrain Army. Sometimes, when he played in U. S. cities, there were boos and catcalls jumbled with the applause; sometimes a disorderly hiss would interrupt his, music. In 1917, he canceled...
Died. General Alexei Nikolaevitch Kuropatkin, 76, famed commander of the main Russian army in the Russo-Japanese War, until the disaster of Mukden; at Shemshurino, Russian...
...Ahmed Zogu reports "all quiet along the Adriatic", but Fan Noli talks darkly of suppression, of Serbian intervention, of a Russian army, and of a threatened partition of Albania by Italy and Jugo-Slavia. And during the period of his exile he sits in his little attic in Vienna and writes and writes and writes...