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Word: russians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleven million tons of grain. This is 10% more than last year, will amply suffice to feed the Red Army and the proletarian population of Russia's cities throughout the winter. "Let us rejoice and sing!" cried the Peasant-President, motioning to the orchestra leader. "Once more the good Russian Land has given us plenty of bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Love Song | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Edith Rockefeller McCormick's diamond necklace which hung to her waist once belonged among the Russian crown jewels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Emil Cooper, famed Russian conductor who has introduced much Slavic music to Western Europe, made his U. S. debut. While laymen in the audience concentrated on the amateurish antics of Singer McCormic, critics marked Conductor Cooper's bright tempo, his fine sense of balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Basso Feodor Chaliapin boomed a Russian folksong at her with an arm around her so that she could feel his "vibrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Alexander Suhkov, Russian émigré, by Princess Victoria of Schaumburg-Lippe; at Cologne, Germany. Grounds: nonsupport. Fortnight ago she sold all her private property for about $180,000, moved to a cheap boarding house near Bonn. She offered to pay Suhkov 10,000 marks ($2,400) for the return of her letters, he having already embarrassed her by writing his amorous memoirs and dedicating them with a sly flourish to her brother, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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