Word: ata
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...operative window she must take whatever the overworked comrade clerk has left, and sometimes he or she has nothing left, slams the grocery window. Not only in Moscow but throughout the Soviet Union such standing in line is a common sight in every city. In remote Alma Ata, in romantic Samarkand, patient women, whether they can read or write or not, guard jealously their "food books," in which the Co-operative clerks enter every purchase to prevent "food repeaters...
Maxim Gorki (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov), 62, son of an upholsterer, long-time associate of social pariahs, wrote ATa Due in 1903 when his short stories had already made him a world figure and his literary friend Anton Chekhov (see p. 64 and below) had challenged him to write a good play. He is the only great prerevolutionary Russian man-of-letters who enjoys the cordiality of Soviet authorities. His latest novels are infused with Soviet doctrine. For his health, he spends the winters in Italy. He once shocked his hosts in the U. S. when it was discovered that...