Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five miles of ragged Russian peasants, we read, filed sorrowfully past the body of Lenin, bowing reverently before this terrorist of the new regime. The capital city itself, it is said, is to be renamed Leningrad. One feels that all this is mourning for the man, attribute to the leader rather than to his ideas or methods...
...memory of Nicolai Lenine may continue to control the destiny of the Russian Soviet Republic or quarrels among her new leaders may destroy the strength of that influence: these possibilities were mentioned by Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 last night when asked to comment on Moscow dispatches carried in the evening papers reporting the death of Russia's Red premier...
...performance. Beryl Mercer (lately Queen Victoria) adds another memorable portrait to her stage gallery as the charwoman. Lionel Watts, Leslie Howard, and Margalo Gillmore lend competence that edges upon distinction to the clergyman and the lovers. The Examiner is Dudley Digges (Adding Machine man). The New Poor. The immigration Russian royalty to our shores is deftly satirized in this latest inscription for the stage from the pen of the socially penetrating Cosmo Hamilton. Into a household lately bereft of its entire corps of servitors, he introduces a quartette of nobles from the vicinity of the Volga. One of these...
Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General: "The Evening World, a Democratic newspaper published in Manhattan, announced that I, in answer to a question as to whether the U. S. Government is 'afraid' of withholding Russian recognition, replied: 'If you ask that question seriously, you are a nut, like the rest. That is the official Department of Justice opinion...
...American school, with what Dr. Boris called at the time its "discipline and routine," its "rubbish and refuse," could furnish. The boy could read and write at the age of two; at seven he passed the Harvard Medical School examinations in anatomy; at eight he could speak French, Russian, English, German, and could read Latin and Greek; at ten he entered Tufts; and at eleven he entered Harvard, graduating in 1914. He taught mathematics in Rice Institute, Texas, returned to Boston and was arrested for participating in a socialist demonstration in 1919. After that he dropped out of public notice...