Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evolution of the Russian Bureaucracy". Professor Friedrich, Harvard...
...inhabitants as in the struggles in modern China, and the stream of refugees and emigrants to the distant but more tranquil Manchuria will probably be greater than ever this year. There the international competition is still present to add to the complication, as is shown by rumors of Russian generals or Japanese money backing one or the other faction. Out of China should come something of great moment to world history before long, but to contemporary eyes it is still a witches' cauldron ever threatening to boll over...
Chernoff. The next witness for the plaintiff was Vadim Chernoff, a blond Russian expatriate, a painter of ikons. Excitedly, with an accent like a musical comedian, he dilated for an hour on Renaissance pigmentation, explained both how and what colors were used. He called the Hahn painting "translucent," and the Louvre painting "dirty." Technically he was wise, but Lawyer Levy confounded him with questions on art history and showed that M. Chernoff's advice had rarely, if ever, been sought in weighty controversy. Sir Joseph chuckled as the Chernoff lecture began. Later he gazed into a newspaper with obvious...
...Asia where Russia gnaws into China. There on the border Ivan Pavlovitch Tokareff was, for this story, the misogynist commander of the Cossack police garrison. And there his boyish niece Fedossia went to visit him. They hunted in the deserts, chased and captured Kara-Kirghiz bandits, rescued a lecherous Russian fop from the underground Chinese desert city Tourfan, partook in a Kirghiz baiga (rodeo), found gold together, watched the Fouidoutoun of Souidoun dynamite himself, his family and his dwelling in despair over the Chinese revolution, and decided to marry...
...thousands who followed the flight of General Nobile and felt the sudden silence of his craft, "The Italia," and traced day by day the rescue effort, knew somehow that there was a Russian boat called an ice-breaker and named "Krassin," which reminded many only of some wild drink, beating her way north among the floes. Perhaps there was in the minds of some a sense of incongruity that a Soviet ship, owned by a government which most people think is the enemy of mankind, should be on a mission of mercy...