Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engine makers, Hispano-Suiza, sent famed Sacha Guitry's good friend, Mlle Claude May, to win a Grand Prix d'Honneur in starched organdie with peplum jacket and one of their dazzling cars. More conservative, the Delage Company sent Mme Paul Cartier, daughter of a onetime Imperial Russian oil tycoon and wife of a small Geneva banker, to be "crowned" La Laur...
...Conference with his explanation of why the Red Navy, although "wholly not aggressive," must be able to rush out of its Black Sea at any moment. The reason is, according to the Soviet Foreign Minister, that units of the Bolshevik fleet have to make "courtesy visits" constantly to other Russian ports. Comrade Litvinoff did not think foreign warships could make courtesy visits to Black Sea ports without incurring suspicion that their purpose was "aggressive." To Turkish proposals that the straits be closed to all submarines, Orator Litvinoff replied that Soviet submarines must have the right to pass, others might perhaps...
...latest reports nothing in London had pleased the Sheik and his sons so much as the Russian Ballet's performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade, an Arabian Nights fantasy in which a Sultana and all her co-wives betray their Sultan on the stage with Negro slaves, afterward are butchered by the Sultan's soldiers. Although cultivated Mayfair and Manhattan consider Scheherezade merely esthetic, the Sheik & Sons watched it with savage joy, their nostrils quivering and eyes bugging as the Negro slaves and fair wives heaved. "The Sheik never mentions his own wives to unbelievers," confided...
...world in prohibiting abortion, except where necessary to preserve the life of the prospective mother, or in extreme cases of venereal disease. Reason: Soviet gynecologists have convinced the Kremlin that 16 years of easy abortion on a nation-wide scale have impaired the health of hundreds of thousands of Russian women, however much it achieved in realizing Communist ideals of equality of the sexes and a single Soviet standard of morality...
...normal life in different classes rather than in picturesque or exciting exceptions. The Russia they saw has come to be a familiar land to readers of travel books, a country of new cities, new buildings, new plans, of confusion, enthusiasm, inefficiency. Lester Cohen's most refreshing Russian experience was his visit to a model self-governing prison colony at Lubertze. There the prisoners were given vacations, were punished by being expelled. Despite Lester Cohen's enthusiasm for the Soviet Union, he was distressed by the beggars he saw on the streets, encountered many citizens who grumbled...