Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grave rumors rumbled in the Near East last week, reverberated in the Far East. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey and Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Valentinovich Tchitcherin met "secretly" at Odessa and discussed there, according to despatches, a Turko-Russian pact which it was allegedly proposed to expand into an "Asiatic League" embracing in addition China, Persia and Afghanistan...
Leopold Auer, 81, unrivaled violin teacher: "Like my friend, Pianist Hofmann, I have just become a U. S. citizen. By birth Hungarian, I became in 1883 a Russian subject, in 1895 hereditary Russian nobleman, and in 1903 Russian State Councilor. As soloist to the Tsar, I succeeded the great composer-violinist Wieniaw-ski, but my chief pride is that my pupils have included Elman, Zimbalist, Heifetz. I have lived in the U. S. since 1918, following the Russian Revolution...
...tense, colorful-play could hardly have been selected. Wisely, Eva Le Gallienne guards against arousing suspicion that her theatre is "arty." Though the five tableaux call for much changing about of scenery, few in the audience left their seats after the curtains, because Miss Le Gallienne had provided a Russian Gypsy orchestra that can strum ten minutes into nothing...
...idle youngster throws a stone, a young man is blinded for life. Almost Russian in its intensity, this novel by a very young man possesses a depth of thought and a stark revelation of the human soul seldom found in English or American writers...
...successfully that Wilson himself, suspicious as he was of the Allies' war aims, succumbed and led the United States to war. Mr. Bausman concludes that the delay of this action till 1917 was at least a negative blessing, as an earlier entry would have meant the triumph of Russian arms and Russian preponderance in Europe. Finally, when the Allies triumph with America's inestimable aid, they laugh at our idealism and plot to defraud us of our just debts. A propaganda of hate they spread against us on the continent. And in the future the United States must be prepared...