Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last-named composer in represented by his famous Third or "Eroica" Symphony which was played last weekend in Boston during the Friday and Saturday series. In contrast to this great work is a recent orchestral suite by the Russian musician, Sergo Prokefloff, who is well known for both his composing and pianoforte abilities. This particular suite is an arrangement of his incidental music to the Soviet film, "Lieutenant Kije," and is grouped into five movements of a light and satirical mood. The film was produced in the U. S. S. R. in 1933 and the music is being heard...
Under Cinema, TIME, Sept. 13, you state in a footnote that in Russian the adjective meaning "red" also means "pretty," hence the play on words in speaking of a "red girl" in the Communist sense. Whoever wrote that had better have a talk with Mr. Berlitz and brush up his Russian because krasnaya meaning "red" and krasivaya meaning "pretty" are similar in appearance but entirely different in meaning. I quote the feminine form of the adjective and the transliteration...
Reader Champollion is wrong. Krasnaya, which also means red, is to krasivaya as bonny is to pretty. Authority: Moscow-published Russian-English Dictionary compiled by Professors V. Müller & S. Boyanus...
...Japanese press, including the English language newspapers, continues to stress obediently that the present scrap, is the "China Incident," not at all a war in any sense of the word. Large space is given to supposed Russian interference which is prolonging the "Incident." The demand has been voiced several times for strengthening of the Cabinet, which admittedly was not created in a strength sufficient to carry on under the present difficulties. Again and again in the press comes the plea that the nation must achieve more unity, that Japan must present a united front to the world, and that...
...funds were being solicited by Dr. Connon and his aids? Again no. The money was collected to aid the wounded in Spain. It was used to help Moscow in Harlem. If "Spanish Democracy" is aided in such a way, they in 1917 men of the same political philosophy saved Russian Democracy and have preserved it ever since...