Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet cause and which are contributors to the success of Socialism and to its further progress" are entitled by the Electoral Law to nominate candidates for the election December 12. This might be only Comrade Vishinsky's opinion, but last week all Russia accepted it as in fact closing a question which has been an open sore to Soviet bureaucrats and the police...
Paper and Pencils. Another curious major pre-election fact, evident from the Soviet press last week, was that the recent announcement that 145,000,000 ballots have already been printed must have been premature. They are to be printed with the names of nominated candidates and but a small percentage of the nominations have yet been made. Moreover 145,000,000 ballots have not been printed because there is a paper shortage resulting from a lumber shortage so acute that Stalin's official newsorgans were accusing officials of the Timber Commissariat last week of conspiracy to "sabotage the election...
Even those who did not know the legend of Amphitryon*-whose wife Alcmena was seduced by Jupiter-expected this because they knew Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Spirited Aphrodisiantics, urbanely conducted infidelities are the hallmark of Lunt-Fontanne plays, which take on added zest from the well-known fact that Actors Lunt and Fontanne have been contentedly married for the last 15 years...
...conception, blended with some dash of Lunt-Fontanne sauce, is brought to a satisfactory simmer. For the audience the result looks like naturalness done to a turn. That this naturalness is frequently naughty is half the charm of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The other half is the reassuring fact which enables even the Old Lady from Dubuque to giggle at them with a clear conscience. For as one such old lady is reported to have said: "Isn't it comforting to know they're married...
Though most people think they feel sympathy for human wretchedness, it is a remarkable fact that present-day proletarian paintings are in general formalized, strained and snide. Painters like the late George Luks and George Bellows could make an old applewoman look pathetic; young painters nowadays are more likely to make her look depraved. Somewhere between pathos and depravity lies the truth which would arouse fear and pity. For various reasons-preoccupation with design, premature austerity, honorable anger or plain bad draughtsmanship-few modern artists touch that particular truth...