Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...area of the Russian Empire was over 19 million square versts (8 million English square miles) or one-seventh of the land surface of the globe. The area of the U. S. S. R. is considerable over 17 million square versts...
Despatches reported that such noted feminist Communists as the widow of Nikolai Lenin have instituted a movement for the purpose of discouraging kissing as a form of greeting between Russian males...
...represented plastically, with various unexpected levels and slopes, a Spanish interior the like of which has yet to be seen in Spain, the Nemirovitch-Dantchenko Moscow opera troupe (TIME, Jan. 11) presented last week their version of Mérimée's Carmen with a totally new Russian libretto and a totally new arrangement of the Bizet score...
Song of the Flame.* Have Messrs. Harbach and Hammerstein, authors of Rose-Marie, repeated? They have not, quite. They have scrambled up some princes and peasants in the hot pan of the Russian revolution, unscrambling them again in Paris-a moderately tasty plot, but lacking romance's true savor. Composers George Gershwin and Herbert Stothart have tried to catch the Slavic note, but the U. S. is too full of sad-singing Russians for their imitators to go undetected. Joseph Urban has spread out the settings with a fine free hand. Choreographer Jack Haskell has set in motion some...
...bridgework grinned. "It's all the same to me", it gestured, and went out to smoke. Sic transit--but that again is Russian...