Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intransigent attitude towards a reparations settle-ment and a general distrust of the implications of French foreign policy, ample reason existed for distrust, leading to a general fall of exchange rates and a stampede similar to the American free silver scare of 1895, to the gambling in 1919 on Russian rubles, in 1922 on the German mark, in 1923 on the sterling exchange under Baldwin's protectionist campaign...
Last week he returned to Berlin for a holiday, after a prolonged trip through Russia. Interviewed in Berlin he made ominous reference to the idea of a German-Russian-Japanese alliance. In his mind the vision is not dead. He concluded by paying high compliment to the "broad education, culture, courage, energy" of the leaders of new Russia, and to the "noble, patriotic feeling" of the Japanese...
Materiel acquired to fight the revolt of the Huertists include 2,900 aircraft bombs, 33 machine guns, 15,100 Enfield rifles, 5,000 Russian rifles...
...hips), beautiful, intelligent, a talented musical composer, longs to stand up to conduct her own symphonies, longs to stand up and have a man play upon her passions. Men flirt with her, but shun her as a matrimonial hazard. Repression has given her a case of aggravated amorousness. A Russian surgical instrument maker, half genius, half charlatan, who received his early training in the Chicago stockyards, guarantees to cure her with a movable rack, if she will lie strapped to it for a year while her limbs are remoulded nearer to the heart's desire. This Napoleonic upstart, imperious...
...treatment ends, she tries to walk, falls, and the Russian's ego topples with her. But as he claps on his hat for an exit growing love of him lends her pinions. She walks far enough to reach his arms for the grand finale...