Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over six feet high. He is characterized by a prominent nose, deep-set eyes, a resonant voice and a military bearing. He is the son of Count Georges Apponyi, late Chief Justice of Hungary. He speaks fluently Hungarian, German, French, Italian, English, and is conversant with Russian and several Slavic languages...
...richest source of radium in the world is believed to have been discovered in Turkestan by a Russian Government expedition. An American syndicate, which includes Dr. C. Everett Field, President of the Radium Research Corporation, and Washington B. Vanderlip, chronic Soviet concession hunter, with four New York philanthropists as "angels," is planning to produce and distribute radium from this field at cost price. Radium manufactured from carnotite deposits in Colorado costs from $85 to $110 a milligram, or approximately $50,000,000 a pound. This has been reduced in the last two years to $70 a milligram by the exploitation...
...Chauve Souris has not won known by novelty alone. In striking contrast to the average Broadway chorus, the Russians, from the principal down, take in their parts an interest which is joyous to behold. It is not difficult to understand why they have become not only a Russian, but a Parisian and an American institution. "Loyalties" is a play which treats a difficult and ever-present situation with consummate skill. Its characterization and its acting place it far above most of the so-called problem plays" which have cluttered the modern stage...
Platon, picturesque Archbishop of the Orthodox (Russian) Church in the U. S., has been unfrocked by Moscow ecclesiastics, and by them deprived of all authority in this world or the world-to-come, by them branded as impostor. But Platon remains in New York-the unfrocking obviously cannot be literal. He remains and continues to be one of the most successfully advertised clericals in the country...
...next to King George, in the British Empire'; Nathan Straus, New York philanthropist; Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic, said to be the world's greatest, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas Paine Association, the Royal Society of Literature, the Garrick Club; Chaim N. Bialik, Russian, the great Hebrew poet; Stephen S. Wise, Manhattan rabbi; Henri Louis Bergson, the great French philosopher, member of the French Academy and Commander in the Legion of Honor; Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian, 'supreme in the field of belles-lettres...