Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Secretary. Miss Margaret Bondfield, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Labor, is the first woman to hold a ministerial post in Great Britain. She was a delegate in 1920 to the Russian Congress of Labor Unions, a labor adviser in the British delegation to the Washington labor conference, a delegate at several labor meetings in Geneva under the auspices of the League of Nations. Because of the shape of her head, she has been compared to a robin. Said Lady Astor: "'Maggie' Bondfield is worth twice some of the men in the Cabinet...
...name that came out of Russia last year. It is an assumed name a derivative from the Russian word for "steel." Ivan Stalin. Russians think he resembles inflexible steel...
Fashion Row. By a clever manipulation of wigs, Mae Murray contrives to do a successful sister act. As her older sister, she is a Russian immigrant in New York who rises to the brilliant dignity of a star in the local theatrical firmament and marries into a Mayflower family. All this under the pretense that she is a princess. Discarding the black wig and the tragedy manner, she again arrives in New York? this time as her younger sister? wide-eyed and penniless. On the same boat is an oily anarchist who discovers the interlocking relationships, gets them all together...
...longer in their element. This is only to be expected. Years of change both in the manner of inducing the smile, and in the graduates themselves are bound to make a difference. But there was one guest at the dinner, who pictures himself flying to Boston to Russian leaps, completely at one with the work he had to do. Of course Mr. James Montgomery Flagg is old in the ways of his craft. But he needed all his cunning to strike off the group around the board. With rapidity and daring he has caught them. Mr. Longfellow fils lends...
Thursday evening in the same hall, a recital by Carl Pawlowski, Russian pianist. He will play the inevitable "Sonata Appassionata...