Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow last week the Russo-German Trade Treaty (TIME, Oct. 12) was signed by Acting Foreign Minister Litvinov and the President of the Russian Treaty Negotiating Committee, M. Ganetski, for the Soviet Union; and by the Ger. man Ambassador, Count Brock-dorff-Rantzau, and the President of the German Committee, Herr von Kerner, for Germany...
Satan in Sables. Good old cinema staple is hereby rewoven into a routine romance of Paris. The presence of Lowell Sherman, lurid villain of many a legitimate production (and of D. W. Griffith's Way Down East), is the only unusual feature. He plays a Russian millionaire on the loose in the French capital. There is the usual sweet and simple cocotte from Montmartre to enthrall him. If you like Hm on the stage, you will approve him in this movie-if you like the movies...
More varied were the offerings of "sundry cat," aggregating about 25,000 skins in one day. Russian cat went for $2.00, leopard cat as high as $1.70, Hungarian cat at $1.40, spotted...
Notable occurrences were two: 1) Bishop Vedenski, of the great Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, leader of the Russian Church reform movement, hinted broadly at a wish to discuss with the Vatican some means of reuniting the Eastern (Greek) and Western (Roman Catholic) Christian Churches, and thus bridging the great schism which has lasted more than 1,000 years. 2) Bishop Makary of Peterhof (near Leningrad) urged that the Russian Church adopt "a form of weekly prayer for the Soviet Government, which is now definitely established by the will of the majority of the Russian people . . . and therefore worthy...
Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff, emphatic Russian, closed the concert with Tchaikowski's "1812 Overture," and as the strains of the "Marseillaise" and the Russian National anthem floated out in the final bars -Boom Boom! Boom!-siege guns they sounded-fired back stage and the smoke floated out over the audience. The multi-national multi-national multitude went mad applauding, and, of course, Conductor Sokoloff made a little speech...