Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tovarich" is a delicious mixture of first-rate humor and first-rate drama. The situation of the old Russian aristocracy reduced to romantic humility is saved from triteness by the simple addition of four billion francs, entrusted by the old tsar to the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna and her consort, Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff, to be delivered to the new tsar whenever he should ascend the imperial throne...
When, however, he asks for the four billion to save Russian oil fields from the English, Dutch, French, and Americans, and argues that since the Tsar was Russia's the Tsar is not dead, he is granted his request. As he leaves, the Grand Dutchess shouts at him "Tovarich", which is Russian for comrade...
...promote the non-political study and enjoyment of Russian life and culture," the first meeting of the Harvard Russian Circle will be held tomorrow at 7:45 in the Dunster House Small Common Room. Knowledge of the Russian language is not required. Jeffrey E. Fuller is acting president...
...driven by job-seekers and backslappers to refuge in the boarding house where Miss Plum lives with various cinema people who differ from the successes only in not having jobs. Gradually it dawns on Atterbury that Colossal is being ruined by 1) its ace director (Alan Mowbray), a Russian who wants to send to Switzerland for edelweiss for his Alpine shots, although the edelweiss will not be visible in the blizzard scene for which it is wanted; 2) Cheri (Maria Shelton), a fading actress whose contract makes it worth a cutter's job to take...
...estimates of older statesmen and most informative in his reminiscences of personal contacts with World War generals. But as Author Churchill approaches the present his passionate conservatism leads him increasingly astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police and for Nihilists, reported on each to the other and had to maintain card files to keep his machinations straight); represents the fun-loving, light-witted Alfonso XIII of Spain (chiefly notable during his reign for his gambols on the Riviera, his gambling...