Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Former President Alexander Kerensky (at Prague), he whom the Bolsheviki threw out of power in 1917 after he, in his turn, had cast out the Romanovs: "I approve recent wholesale de jure recognition of Soviet Russia. All democratic states, even though disagreeing with Russian Communism, will be well advised to have authorized representatives at Moscow to protect their interests, if these should be violated by Bolshevik principles...
...face changes, his forehead "grows higher and broader," the yellow-green eyes flash-the man speaks. Once Kerensky spoke for twelve hours without stopping. Senor Ibañéz, after seeing him, thought he could speak for 24 hours and not be in the least affected. Said he: "The Russian has a mouth like a codfish . . . and a voice like a cross between a megaphone and a trombone...
...prominent Bolsheviki are now wintering on the Russian Riviera...
...Metropolitan, Massenet's Le Roi de Lahore was given its first showing one evening last week. As a stage spectacle, it was ultra-magnificent. Boris Anisfeld, most vigorous of modern Russian 'decorative artists, given a free hand with Eastern temple scenes and Oriental Gardens of Paradise, had splashed his paint regardless. The story, too, had its points as melodrama. Alim (King of Lahore), Scindia (Prime Minister), Timur (High Priest), the god Indra, rajahs, priests, fakirs, soldiers, dancers, bayaderes, slaves, musicians united in scenes of love and war to produce a scheme of action, ending gloriously in two suicides...
...Many generations of love and hard work have developed the Russian ballet. The leading school where thousands of students have accomplished their education to make the name of Russian Ballet in the world of art, was the Russian Imperial Ballet School of St. Petersburg. Tonight a pupil of this school, Mme. Maria Kedrina, will give her Spectacle recital in Brattle Hall. During the past ten years we have often hard that technique is destroying freedom of movement, and that because of it the dance appears to be unnatural and insincere; that study of the historical progress of the dance...