Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballots, 200 being polled for Count Bninski (Right), and 1 for M. Marek (Socialist), with 63 Deputies abstaining - mostly from the White Russian, Slav, National Workers, and Piast (Peasant) parties...
Comeback? With Soviet gold, Mongol troops and Russian officers, General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Christian Bolshevist War Lord,'" recently driven from Peking (TIME, April 12) was last week reported preparing a drive from Siberia on his native land. Then quite suddenly the occidental press discovered the General in Berlin. Perhaps he was only buying peanuts...
...usual stereotyped "atrocity" was enacted many times: an officer -several were Russian mercenaries -bursts into a house, orders his men to kill all but the more delectable women, recreates himself, abandons the women to his soldiers, departs with the lion's share of loot. The women, dragged to the soldiers' camps, are "staked out with ropes and pegs." Such acts -typical of every war-were given scant attention by callous humans last week...
...really a great deal to see besides bedroom ladies, some 3,500 works in all-processions, cavalcades, crosses, St. Anthony in a dozen poses, cardinals, heroes, canals, churches, inscrutable dishes of fruit, chaotic spasms of pigment labeled "Mood," "Flight" and other rapt generalizations. . . . There was a sturdy young Russian landscapist who has been studying of late years at the Philadelphia Academy, Captain Vladimir Perfiliev, erstwhile of the Don Cossacks. He had painted the grim mountains of Montenegro and the bright Balkans beyond, and if you went with him to his studio he had some very clever portrait work to show...
...Joseph Schildkraut. Neil Hamilton, Lou Tellegen. Arthur Edmund Carew, and the wonderful Russian actor, Ivan Lebedeff, are some of my artists. I have placed three with D. W. Griffith and I am Rex Ingram's agent in America...