Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediately after this Boston engagement, so says the program, Balieff and his Chauve-Souris Company, are sailing for Paris to begin an engagement at the Femina Theatre. Here, in December 1920, the vastly, fat and vastly diverting Russian first gathered together the fugitive members of his original Bat Theatre of Moscow. It has been an eventful and profitable four years, in which the inimitable Balieff and his company of singers, clowns, and dancers have journeyed from Paris, to London, to America, and back to Paris again, finding everywhere the same joyous welcome...
...repertory of Balieff's Chauve-Souris are by now the common property of all America. The drollery of the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; the exquisite, breathless beauty of the porcelain pantomines; the gorgeous foolishment of "The Sudden Death of a Horse; or the "Greatness of the Russian Soul: by Anton Chekov", the weary, straining rhythm of the Velga boat song,--these and a thousand others are cherished memories for the tens of thousands of Americans who have seen the Chauve-Souris in the past two years...
Snowflakes, Autumn Leaves, Pizzifcato, Warrior Dance, Flirtation, Anitra's Dance, Amarilla, Oriental Impressions, The Swan, Bacchanale, Chopiniana, Old Russian Folklore, California Poppy, Sleeping Beauty, Dances of Japan, A Hindoo Wedding, Krishna .and Rhada, Hungarian Rhapsody...
...Lionel Curtis and Philip Kerr, Lloyd Georgites. Notable omissions of the Institute to date have been its failure to secure intelligent spokesmen for such tremendous political forces as the Soviet Internationale, the Vatican, British Labor. Such omissions are not of vital moment, yet it is pertinent to consider that Russian representation has been limited to the seven-years discredited Tsarist officials, and that the Labor movement of Great Britain is as yet without an exponent or apologist at Williamstown...
...time of the Turco-Russian War, the Post appeared to be stealing News despatches. The News printed a despatch concerning a riot in Servia and in the despatch were some Servian words. The Post printed it and the next day the News published a translation: "The McMullens' (publishers of the Post) will steal this sure." Within a couple of years Lawson was able to buy out the Post. In 1881 he founded The Morning News, later called The Chicago Record, later merged into the Record-Herald and finally sold to Hearst to become The Herald and Examiner...