Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with the late great Russian spectroscppist and seismographer Prince Boris Borisovitch Golitzin...
Almost at once the O. G. P. U. was able to announce that its efficient police-spies had tracked down the bombers. One, stated to be Colonel Georgi Nikolaevich, a onetime officer in the White Russian Army of Baron Wrangel, was chased by O. G. P. U.-ers and shot through the heart as he fled. The other bomb heaver, unidentified, was taken alive in the suburbs of Moscow through the aid of loyal peasants who betrayed his hiding place...
Correspondents guessed that some of the women raced were "impecunious Russian princesses." Certain.was the fact that they wore décolleté one-piece bathing suits, jockey caps and regulation jockey arm bands...
...seemed reasonable to suppose that Chairman Pratt & President Meyer had offered some concessions and suggested others. For example: 1) withdrawal of Dutch Shell objections to Russian oil in India, together with an end of the price war, and, 2) a promise by Standard Oil to press the Soviets to pay Dutch Shell and other owners for their seized and confiscated property. If that were accomplished, observers noted, Russian oil would no longer be "stolen." Standard Oil no longer would be an international fence in the eyes of Sir Henri. And Standard Oil would "carry out contracts," would not be "swerved...
...rises quietly into the air far above traffic and turmoil. He promises Protegé Dickon (Gerhardi himself in disguise) his greatest evening paper as wedding present, but reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries to get the better of her other lovers. Eva who inherits her Russian mother's charming promiscuity was accustomed to arrive penniless at some unfortunate town, take up her abode at the workhouse, but carouse nightly at cafe and dance hall. Eva once traveled from Ireland with nine Catholic priests; all went to the same London hotel; all went to the cinema...