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...Soviet commune every grain of wheat, every horse or chicken, indeed every toothbrush and handkerchief is jointly owned by all members of the commune who own individually nothing outside their skins...
Soviet Union's famed collective farms have ever been true collectives of the type called by Soviet experts the commune...
...ideas about everything. He tells what he thinks of the an den regime, of Napoleon, of the bourgeois king. Louis Philippe, of Napoleon III, of the Franco-Prussian war, of the French foreign policy that led to that war, of M. Thiers and the Third Republic, of the Paris Commune, of the changing status of women through all this time. He also expatiates upon the qualities of French soil, wine and scenery in the different provinces surrounding Pargny, which is on the River Aisne. All this gives The Iron Mother, which might have been just another story of a dominating...
...close vote the Conservatives were placed in power and immediately banished Mrs. Hutchinson to Rhode Island to commune with the Devil and the Indians, and then took up the unfinished business of erecting a building for the college which had been voted two years previously...
...Britain's famed Civil Service (in which the candidate may be required to discuss anything from the causes of British hostility to Russia, 1815-1878, to the proposition, "The ballad is not literature"), but they are stiff enough to baffle most bright young Phi Beta Kappas. Cautious candidates commune with Mr. Roudybush for four months before attempting them. Confident candidates take the examinations first, often commune with Mr. Roudybush afterward for a second try. Each year 75 to 100 aspiring diplomats pay $225 apiece for the privilege. His school, now housed in a three-story Georgetown mansion, was founded...