Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could leave behind his duties as a professor of philosophy at Columbia University. Ahead lay Europe, then broad, fertile Russian plains, and Moscow, and Number Six Boulevard Sretensky...
Amid ensuing festivities at Angora, members of the Afghan suite divulged details of their Russian tour (TIME, May 14) which were suppressed at the time by the Soviet Censor...
...Moscow, at the Lenin Institute, King Amanullah listened placidly, while the Director of the Institute informed him in Russian that he, Amanullah, "is an enlightened monarch who will never tolerate the domination of Great Britain over Afghanistan." When these words were translated to His Majesty in Persian he frowned deeply and said in his reciprocal oration: "I was tremendously impressed by much of what I saw in England (TIME, March 26). . . . I am convinced of the good will of the British Empire toward Afghanistan...
...such times his Russian wife would sit still, puzzled by this talk of fights far away in a land that she did not know. The Russians said they would bury some of his assets in the Kremlin wall. . . . Clarence Darrow said: "I'm glad to hear he is dead ... He was unhappy...
...Tempest are not allowed to forget these facts, which occupy an inexcusably large amount of the film's footage. So, it is no wonder that the reputedly "gripping" action drags. Mr. Barrymore is Sergeant Ivan Markov, of peasant birth, who attains a lieutenant's commission in the Russian army by hard work and through the influence of a kindly general (George Fawcett). Ivan worships the general's haughty daughter (Camilla Horn), but she treats him as peasant swine. One night, he accidentally falls asleep in her boudoir and is degraded and cast into prison for his ungentlemanly...