Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slabs. They ran his father through the middle with the cold tines of a pitchfork, tossed him on the white snow beside the body of his brother near the grey ice of the Dnieper. George Zagorsky, 25, son of onetime Brigadier General Zagorsky of the Czar's Imperial Russian Army has good reason to detest "Reds." Last week George sweltered in Manhattan, parsed verbs, declined nouns and pronouns. He already speaks fluently French, Russian, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish- no English. He has 18 days in which to learn English before his passport expires. He will then be handed...
...Know Women (Florence Vidor and Lowell Sherman). Ernest Vajda, suave Hungarian creator of stage comedy, has been retained to write a motion picture. He has again indicated that the one talent does not necessarily embrace the other. You Never Know Women is pale and thin. It tells of a Russian vaudeville troupe in the U. S.; how the man-about-town interfered with the lovely acrobat's love for the magician. Miss Vidor, Mr. Sherman and an originally resourceful director called William Wellman have saved much from the wreck...
...bathed, personally, in blood as seldom as he could. When it became necessary to sign death warrants by the thousands and eventually by the tens of thousands, that task was passed on to Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, a Pole, the son of a little almost-bourgeois nobleman, the man whom Russian émigrés christened in sheer terror, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." Last week he died in Moscow (of overwork...
...Dzerzhinsky's speech followed hard upon a Soviet decree to the effect that the retail price of all manufactured goods must be reduced 10 per cent. Even at that figure the Russian peasant must pay, according to despatches, slightly less than 15 dollars' worth of grain for an ordinary pair of work shoes...
...joint Collection and Distribution Committee composed of U. S. and Soviet Russian citizens was reported set up at Moscow. Its duties: 1) To collect 25,000 Russian Jews and distribute them advantageously about the new Republic as the nucleus of a future Zion. 2) To collect from U. S. Jews funds for distribution among their pioneer brethren of the new Republic...