Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy enough to explain the Conservative majority in the English Parliament in terms of Russian treaties, economic policies, and uncontested seats, but the decay of liberalism is something which cannot be explained away. In the previous general election, in the ensuing by-elections, and in the election of this week, the Liberal party has suffered an almost continuous succession of defeats. It now controls seven per cent of the seats in Parliament...
...Lord Birkenhead, speaking of the Premier, called him a "lachrymose pilgrim in a motor car and declared the Russian Treaty was an agreement to give "?40,000,000 of English money to a band of murderers who have already robbed...
Thousands of Russian royalists in France became alarmed over the recognition rumors, thought they might be forced either to return to Russia or to become French citizens. Basile Makakov, one time Russian Ambassador to France, called upon Premier Herriot and was assured by the latter that the status of Russians living on French soil would remain unaltered and would not, under any circumstances, become the subject of conversations between France and Soviet Russia...
...stage of the Manhattan was the scene also of the first appearance in the U. S., this season, of Feodor Chaliapin, incomparable Russian basso. He brought with him all his mannerisms, smiled irresistibly on his audience, wielded his lorgnette (with a gold handle) and his handkerchief and sang with dramatic power and genius which has never been equaled...
Nearly 1,000 people had to be turned away from the theatre, which was crowded even to the stage. The colossal Russian's next appearance will be on the stage of the Metropolitan in the first week of the operatic season, in the role of Boris Godounov?his masterpiece of impersonation...