Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this kind of meeting. . . . The important thing is not Dr. Frank but the statement by Mr. Wilkie that governors always have insisted upon having a hand in the selection of presidents of State universities. ... I could imagine such a thing happening only in the early days of the Russian revolution by a committee of soldiers and peasants. It has happened here." As twilight of the hearing's second day descended over the campus. Glenn Frank had only a few more hours as Wisconsin's president. After recessing for a late dinner, the 15 regents returned...
Like many a Russian, Rachmaninoff had been fascinated by the weird poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Before the War he determined to work into a symphony Poe's tinkling sleigh bells, golden marriage bells, frightened alarm bells and bitter, iron-tongued dirge bells. As text he used Russian Poet Constantin Balmont's version of Poe's second most famous poem, completed the work...
...Henri's second wife was a White Russian, Lydia Pavlovna Koudoyarov. No sooner had they been married than Oilman Deterding assumed the role of Fairy Godfather to destitute White Russians all over the world, glad-handed them thousands from his ample purse. Pleased Nazis, attributing Sir Henri's latest outburst of munificence to "petticoat philanthropy," felt grateful last week that the new Lady Deterding is not Chinese or French...
Commanding the Cyclone is tall, grey-eyed, 46-year-old Captain Renaud, famed in every port of the world for spectacular rescues carried out with a specially adapted Russian icebreaker and a hand-picked crew of 30 who stay on 24-hour duty, functioning with the same perfection as the Cyclone's, expensive mechanical equipment. Minor characters are stony, hare-lipped First Mate Tanguy, who broods over his wife's infidelities on shore, damns the invention of radio because it enables her to time his return; and Boatswain Kerlo, a man with a mysterious aristocratic past, who drinks...
Muscovites went in droves to pay 12 rubles ($2.40) apiece to hear Negro Baritone Paul Robeson sing Ol' Man River and Old Black Joe at the Moscow Conservatory, cheered wildly when he spoke a few words in Russian...