Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Red-fighting, Communist-hating Generalissimo has depended more & more on Soviet Russia for material. This has been going in by planes from stations on the outer Mongolian border and by truck caravans down an ancient 3,000-mile trail, now modernized with gas & supply depots, running from Russian Alma Ata to Sian...
...Speaking Russian, French, and broken English, with an occasional mixture of all three, the Ballerinas partook of tea and cakes and discussed their art with students and faculty of the Slavic department...
These will remain on display until November nineteenth, along with a special exhibition of the Russian Ballet and old prints of ballet dancers, arranged for the visit of the Ballet Russe de Monto Carlo...
...Copenhagen, whose voyage home was his first vacation in ten years. Uncrossing his fingers when the ship pulled in, Vacationist Smith recalled two other vacations in the last 20 years or so. In 1917 he took a holiday in Petrograd, soon found himself sojourning in the midst of the Russian revolution. To Tokyo he hied in 1923, arrived just in time to tremble through the most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history...
...Stalinist agent. Learning to fly in 1934, he flew with his instructor over the Arabian Desert, discovered a ruined city which he said was the ancient home of the Queen of Sheba, but about which experts were noncommittal. A natural scholar, Malraux knows Spanish, English, German, Italian, Russian, as well as Sanskrit, Chinese and minor Oriental tongues, was working on a big book of esthetic theory, The Psychology of Art, when the Spanish Civil War broke...