Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anxious was Commissioner Studebaker to avoid any suggestion of what Russian, German or Italian schoolmen would do with such an opportunity, that he and New Dealer Ickes were ostentatiously vague in their remarks. Commissioner Studebaker warned his small hearers that "democracy must be preserved from every attack." Secretary Ickes declared that they were "entering a world in which we must engage in great enterprises. We must harness Nature, plant forests, and generate power for the use of millions...
...book is an etching frontispiece, executed in drypoint by Charles Blessing of Boston. Another highspot in art-work is the Album's departure from the usual reprinting of familiar college scenes. Replacing these is a series of lithographs from unusual pencil sketches of the Houses--the WORK of the Russian artist, Constantin A. Pertzoff...
Serbia-National Anthem; Russia-Russian Hymn; France-"La Marseillaise"; Belgium-La Brabanconne"; England-"God Save the King"; Italy-"Marcia Reale"; United States of America-"The Star Spangled banner...
...Soviet Government last week dangled a pretty prize before faithful Communists. Until recently it was almost as hard for a Russian to leave the Soviet as for a prisoner to escape from Sing Sing, but lately authorities have felt that conditioning of the young has advanced to the point where a certain amount of contact with the bourgeois world will be safe. For 500 hand-picked Soviet citizens there has been rumored a three-week excursion to France, Russia's one big ally, and a visit to the Paris Exposition. This will cost the workers 5,000 rubles each...
...awarded: the $200 popularity prize voted for by ordinary gallery-goers during the six weeks of the exhibition. Not one of the professional prizewinners or the critics' favorites was in the first half-dozen. To 343 humble Washingtonians, the best picture in the show had been Ballerina by Russian-born Feodor Zakharov, graduate of Imperial Moscow's Ecole des Beaux Arts, now a socialite U. S. portraitist. Slickly painted, showing a very refined young lady posed theatrically on tiptoe in the theatre wing, it won more than twice as many votes as its nearest competitor, Alice Through...