Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austria, which recognizes Russia, the Russian Ambassador also held a reception. All the foreign diplomats with the exception of those accredited by the U. S. and Rumania were present...
...great deal has been heard in the British and U. S. press concerning the analogy of British Socialism to Russian Bolshevism; but hear what the ex-Premier has to say about Karl Marx, whose writings are the Bolshevik Bible: "Today, Marx is known over as wide a world as even Christ or Mohammed. . . . His writings, largely unread, are held as inspired. . . . The validity of his economic theories is more than doubtful; his historical philosophy is in the same position...
Chaliapin's first Boris of the season met with a conflicting reception. Greeted enthusiastically by the audience and most critics, Ernest Newman, brilliant guest critic of The New York Evening Post (TiME, Oct. 13), was disappointed. He had not heard the Russian basso in this role since 1914. He found the great voice gone, the acting selfconscious...
Last week, on a Canadian Pacific train, a man was killed by a bomb in- tended for him-a man who, in the passionate belief of many Russians, was a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Peter Veregin was head of the Russian sect known as Doukhobors. Wherever he went in his country, over bleak steppes, through frozen streets, peasants and quality lifted up their hands to him, or left their homes to follow (unfed but by their own harsh ecstacy) the passage of his footsteps through the winter of the land. Such a one does not go without enemies, though...
Divorce Rumored. Mrs. Mathilda Townsend Gerry, from her husband, Peter Goelet Gerry, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island; in Paris. Mrs. Gerry, prominent hostess in Washington, D. C., last January bought a string of dark pearls from Felix Yusupov, Russian princeling, allegedly valued...