Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the much-touted shots of the battle on the sea are not what they might be. Russian ships may sink when hit, but the Japanese ships, where the camera as are set up, only get a little smoky. There is little of the twisted steel and none of the mangled corpses that give the novel its grim horror...
Asked if she were really Matilda Wutzki, a Russian-born Jewess who married Paul Wilson in West Newton, Mass. in 1910, Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson) laid a long-lived rumor by declaring that her ancestors were all Protestants, had settled in New England before 1680, that her name had always been Frances Perkins, that "this appeal to racial prejudice and the attempt at political propaganda by unworthy innuendo must be repugnant to all honorable men and women." Said she: "There are no Jews in my ancestry. If I were a Jew, I would make...
...notice in TIME, March 16, in connection with Russia, Stalin and Roy Howard that "Stalin is the Russian word for steel...
Seriously we have always understood it was the Russian word for steal...
...until Rome has time to see who is going to fight whom in an impending war. There are a pair of honeymooning Britons, a German scientist, a French Communist, all of whom give every evidence of being men of good will. There are also a French armament maker, his Russian mistress, Irene (Lynn Fontanne), a troupe of U. S. showgirls whom she calls "obvious little harlots," and their blatant but philosophical master of ceremonies, Harry Van (Alfred Lunt). When a nearby Italian airport provides the required military "incident" by sending planes off to destroy Paris, when England squares off against...