Word: russianized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that Stalin was going to back China, panic-stricken lest at any hour Soviet air squadrons from Vladivostok appear and bomb Tokyo with no preliminary declaration of war. Japan played just that dirty trick on Tsar Nicholas at Port Arthur. Why should not Dictator Stalin play it now in Russian revenge on Japan...
Messrs. Simon & Schuster are so enthusiastic about Trotsky's three-volume History of the Russian Revolution (TIME, March 14, 1932) that, although it failed to be the immediate best-seller they expected, they keep plugging it year after year in the U. S. and up to last week had disposed of some 10,000 copies. It admirably sets forth the "theory of permanent revolution" which Comrade Trotsky feels to be his chief contribution to mankind and which, Trotsky thinks, is taking place just as permanently and inevitably in the U. S. as anywhere else...
...Alice's dismay, a dinner party by her family for her boy friend's is interrupted first by an actress with the heebie-jeebies, then by a Russian who wants to wrestle, lastly by a party of raiders from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A night in jail, however, softens up the haughty Kirbys. By the following evening the course of true love is smoothed and Grandpa is able to gather his family and friends and in-laws-to-be about his dinner table, amiably ask his customary benediction...
Many a blue nebula has been discovered, shining by light from a hot blue star. If the reflection theory is correct, red nebulae should also exist, with comparatively cool red stars as illuminators. Last August Russian-born, dimple-chinned Director Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory announced discovery of the first known red nebula. It fans out from the red super giant star Antares to a distance of about two quadrillion miles...
...effort to free him of cowardice. His wife protects his delusions, nurses him, lies to her children about him. His sister Therese, once a great tragic actress, crippled with rheumatism, hobbles about on crutches. In a remote section there is a fiery great-grandmother. Nadya Séverin, a Russian princess waited on by an idiot boy but occasionally escaping downstairs under the delusion that she is flogging some serfs-a character so bewilderingly obscure that it would not be surprising if she should mount a moon-bound broomstick...