Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What passes for bolshevism and communism in Mexico is this: There are there, as here, people who sympathize with the Russian philosophies. There, as here, they express themselves through papers and meetings. The papers are poor things that are printed first in one shop, then in another. When they get up here they are taken seriously. Fewer than 100 people will get together and proclaim themselves the Communist Party of Mexico...
...glad that Mr. Gershwin was characterized by a Gentile writer as "young Jew". Whenever American newspapers give accounts of crime they will very frequently tell you that this or that criminal is Jewish. On the other hand, whenever they describe Jewish geniuses they invariably speak of the "Russian violinist," the "German novelist," or the "French playwright." The TIME Magazine proved to be an agreeable exception in this regard...
...Nahum Sokolov been a man of greater soul-breadth, he might have restored peace and been elected President. For he is a most distinguished man in whom his race takes pride. Born in Wishograd, Russian Poland, he was an intellectual prodigy at ten. He has been a journalistic prodigy ever since, is the most prolific Jewish writer of this generation. Histories, primers, geographies, magazine articles-there is nothing he has not written. But he was not the man to quench the fire in Jabotinsky's eyes. He was not the man to wean from Weizmann the financial support...
Over the pedal deliberations of the convention presided Louis Chalif, President of the American Society of Teachers of Dancing. He, a graduate of one of the Russian Imperial ballet schools, onetime ballet master of the government theater at Odessa, is the founder of the famed Chalif Russian Normal School of Dancing, Manhattan ?an establishment which has proved as remunerative as a tract of Florida real estate. Chalif is plump, prosperous, vigorous. His face invariably displays the bland amiability of one who is pleasantly stupefied by recent exertion. Once Pavlowa saw him perform...
...this without hesitation, asseverated Senator King, because, according to general opinion in the Near East, they have a secret agreement with Russia. This supposedly means that at some future date Russia may help Turkey to recapture her lost dominions in return for Constantinople, the age-old object of Russian foreign policy...