Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prosper unless temporarily subsidized. The cabinets, impressed, but faced with a necessity to economize, hesitated. Came Hindenburg. . . . He spoke as the civilian President of the Republic, but those who listened saw in their mind's eye the great Commander-in-Chief who, in 1914, had flung back the Russian armies from that same East Prussia which he was trying now to save again. German decorum kept secret the nature of the plea made by Old Paul von Hindenburg, but German patriotism made refusal-to the victor of Tannenburg* -impossible. Soon the joint cabinets issued a communique not only approving...
...great battle of Aug. 26-31, 1914, in which Hindenburg, with an inferior force, virtually annihilated the Russian army of the Narew...
Died. Sergius Sazanov, 61, onetime (1914-16) Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire; at Nice...
...away in the corner of his mind. That summer Tenor Rosing received a cable, and in the fall, after canceling a year's concert engagements, Tenor Rosing returned to the U. S. to be operatic director of the Eastman School of Music. Vladimir Rosing is a Russian, steeped in the artistic notions that have made the Moscow Art Theatre. For him the ensemble is the thing. There can be no such thing as a "star." For him opera at its best must be the synchronization of all the arts-orchestral, vocal, dramatic, scenic, decorative. On such a basis...
...turn end for end, says Author Wassermann in effect. He proceeds to cite "case histories": Peasant Adam studied his only son for signs of weak character so long and so truculently that the heir killed himself. The father, remorseful, claimed to have murdered the boy; hung himself. Golovin, voluble Russian revolutionist, had in his power a woman for whom he craved. To her he talked all night about his vicious deeds and cynical philosophy and in the morning left her unharmed, still talking about himself. Three other "histories" appear in the book. They all display Author Wassermann's virtuosity...