Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronx, Supreme Court Justice John E. McGeehan warned a jury panel that $500 worth of property had been stolen from his chambers in a few weeks' time, explained: "Nothing is safe around here unless it is nailed down. [Someone] even made away with my towels and soap...
...industrial proletariat was inherently revolutionary, that its numbers and miseries would increase, that its conflict with the capitalist class would intensify, that eventually it would be able to overthrow the "bourgeoisie," and that, after the revolution, classes would disappear in a new kingdom of freedom, and government would "wither away...
Lenin's great experiment established a dictatorship, nominally "of the proletariat," actually of the Communist Party and eventually of Stalin alone. New class distinctions arose between workers, managers and bureaucrats. The Soviet Government has so far shown no signs of withering away-though Communists expect it eventually to do so. Meanwhile outside Russia the sometimes heroic Communist International has been effective in nothing so much as in scaring the pants off the middle class...
...when he was away his generals began plotting to junk the Constitution. Five years after military victory the new republics were chasing after dictators faster than Bolívar could run. When Colombia started a counterrevolution and his beloved General Sucre was assassinated Bolívar wrote: "All who have served the Revolution have ploughed...
Curios: Gauguin once said that for a room to be properly decorated, there must be an obscene picture opposite the door. In this way, he said, it is possible to scare away all respectable people . . . The young idealist who walked out of the Louvre with Watteau's "L'indifferente" under his coat was recently sentenced to two years imprisonment. He claimed that the painting had been badly retouched and that he had intended to improve its condition . . . The Percy Haughton monument at Soldiers Field was done by Dr. Mackenzie, a truly great sculptor. Ironic as it may seem, the figures...