Word: tsaristic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classed as a mere creature, according to despatches, was M. Aaron ("Diamond Jew") Rubenstein, who was recently employed by the Polish Government to appraise a shipment of onetime Tsarist diamonds sent for sale in Poland by the Soviet Government. Perhaps it was that service which secured for M. Rubenstein a private cell and communication with his lawyer, although the Polish prosecutor will endeavor to show that he is the head of an international ring of diamond smugglers. Reports that none of the swallowers were suffering more than a minor gripe, caused physicians to recall that sizable nuts & bolts, small spoons...
...Russie Opprimee is the Paris news organ of M. Alexandre Kerensky, the post-Tsarist and pre-Communist head of the Russian State. Though M. Kerensky is cordially detested by most Tsarists and by all Communists, he is now publishing an "expose" of the Shahkta Trial...
Round Russian peasant tummies now contain almost twice as much bread and liquor made from grain as in Tsarist days. So said, last week, both kindly Soviet President Michael Kalinin and ruthless Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin...
Explanation may lie in the fact that Tsarist landlords underfed their peasants and sold abroad what the hungry would have liked to eat. Today, with the peasant master of his Fate and Farm, rural tummies are full to bursting, and urban workers are experiencing a slight vacancy under the belt...
...Petersburg. After a prolonged inspection from dubious and dull-witted cinema censors, this interesting though not entertaining production was permitted to appear before Manhattan spectators. It delineated for their benefit the events that led up to the overthrow of the Tsarist régime. The picture was a Soviet government production and as such was intended as an advertisement of the home country rather than as the dire panorama it might otherwise have been. Its story-that of a young Russian peasant lost in the shuffle of war and disaster-excited the attention of neither the director, Vyesolod Pudovkin...