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Word: russianize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution introduced by Senator Kendrick of Wyoming to admit three Russian waifs, whose parents died of starvation, detained at Ellis Island since December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

When the scheme was first outlined, the artists directly obtained the permission of the Russian Commissariat of Education on the understanding that the Russian Red Cross was to receive 10% of the profits. Thereupon, the artists set out from Moscow, accompanied by Alexander I. Bukhareff, of the Commissariat of Education. But the American Consul at Riga refused to visé the passport of the last named gentleman, so the artists, with 900 pictures, continued unchaperoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Russians Fail | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

That they were in need of chaperonage seems apparent from their immediate affiliation in this country with Count Ilyia Tolstoy, Prince Felix Yusupov and other recognized Tsarists. They also ignored their obligation to the Russian Red Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Russians Fail | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

...expedition had been financed by I. D. Sytin, a wealthy Russian newspaper man. When his funds were gone, they availed themselves of the generosity of Charles R. Crane, former American Minister to China, who advanced them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Russians Fail | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

Pavlowa is in the habit of reaping scintillant appreciations of this nature. She has just returned from a deliriously successful tour of the Near and Far East, and is again invading our cities with Oriental novelties, chiefly Russian, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pavlowa | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

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