Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conquered Galicia for Austria, overran Serbia. In 1916 he occupied Rumania. In 1917 he smashed the Russian armies, opened the way to the Black Sea. Only the collapse of the Western Front and the Armistice stopped him. Though a Feldmarschall, he never wore a general's uniform and pickelhaube (spiked helmet) but always the broad black fur cap of the Death's Head Hussars, whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military...
Emboldened by Manchurian quiet, T. Leonard Lilliestrom, U. S. Vice Consul at Harbin, organized an international train to pass along the Chinese Eastern Railway, investigate conditions in the area of Sino-Russian dispute. The consuls of Britain, Japan, France and Germany climbed aboard...
Last week a third fiasco occurred. A newly organized Boston Grand Opera Company (in whose personnel were Russian Soprano Anna Lissetzkaya, Baritone Pasquale Amato, Soprano Dorothy Speare) was scheduled to open its second week. Singers backstage applied their makeup, practiced their trills. A thousand patrons arrived. But the Opera House doors remained closed. The performance was canceled, money refunded. Reason: a $15,000 deficit...
...March Densmore On the Pier Goldman Banjo Club 2. Johnny Harvard Chorus of the Bacchantes Gounod Vocal Club 3. "Harvard Club Special". Mr. G. W. Briggs '31 and Mr. R. G. Edwards '31. 4. Frasquita Lehar Waltz in A Major Brahms Mandolin Club 5. Mr. DeWitt Stetten '30 6. Russian Fantasy arr. by Lange Why Was I Born? Kern Gold Coast Orchestra Intermission--Ten Minutes 7. Ein Karleksmatt I Barcelona Lindberg Selections from "Pinafore" Sullivan Mandolin Club 8. Mr. John S. B. Archer '30 9. Glorious Forever Rachmaninoff Old Man Noah arr. by Bartholomew The Longshoreman Chesham Vocal Club...
...Summary of Eighteenth Century Russian History", Professor Karpovitch, Sever...