Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Select competing couples with an eye to racial distinctions; a dance marathon which included an Irish team, a Polish team, a Chinese team, a Jewish team, a Lithuanian team, a Finnish team, a bearded Russian team, a Negro team, etc., etc. Grandstand sections could be roped off for the supporters of each; in each grandstand section the management would hire a band to play the national songs of its occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon...
...eager are the trial-goers that many stand in line all night to obtain small pink tickets good for one day only. Every syllable of the grim proceedings flashes over all the Russias by radio broadcast. Cinema cameras whir at intervals. Flashlight powders occasionally blaze and boom. Fifty Russian and Asiatic correspondents keep 28 telegraph lines busy. Delegations of spectators pour in, daily, from provincial Soviets, plump down on especially reserved benches and marvel at their surroundings...
Nervous and low-voiced, the Dean is under the stigma of having been a Menshevik, not a Bolshevik. That is to say, he once belonged to the "Smaller Group" or "Mensheviki" of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The "Larger Group" or "Bolsheviki" have long since obliterated their rivals, now constitute the Communist Party, and are the political masters of Russia. As a mere Menshevik, the Chief Justice is notably deferential to the potent Soviet Prosecutor. He, the dread Nikolai Vassilievich Krylenko, onetime Commander of the Red Army, plays both hero and villain in the Shahkta Trial...
...Russie Opprimee is the Paris news organ of M. Alexandre Kerensky, the post-Tsarist and pre-Communist head of the Russian State. Though M. Kerensky is cordially detested by most Tsarists and by all Communists, he is now publishing an "expose" of the Shahkta Trial...
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