Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nothing brings such a thunderous frown to the dark brow of Josef Stalin as reports from the farm front that food production is lagging. Promptly agents of his Gay-Pay-Oo pounce (usually at night) on peasant laggards, ship them off from their ancestral farms to saw wood and split rocks in bleak Siberia. All last year food shortage gripped the Soviet Union, peasant deportations continued, prophesies flew that a peasant "passive strike" might crack the Stalin regime...
...released from their harsh exile, sent back on joyously clattering trains to help till the 225,000,000 Soviet acres thus far sown. Best of all, from the peasant's standpoint. Dictator Stalin created an All-Union Procuratorial Department to curb and supervise his strong-arm agents: the Gay-Pay-Oo, the militia, the criminal police...
...producer of this piece emphatically deny that it is intended to present a biography of the late Jeanne Eagels. Their denial appears to remove the last excuse for the production, for surely it is not in itself a proper vehicle for talented, orange-haired Francine Larrimore (Let Us Be Gay, Brief Moment...
Richard Hiller Amberg, Robert Hicks Bates, Henry Hamilton Bissell, Richard Adolph Bloomfield, Benjamin Cushing Bowker, Morton Clark Bradley, Jr., Leon Brooks, Winston Mansfield Burdett, Warren Leonard Claff, Samuel Louis Cohen, Louis Cooperstein, Samuel Duker, Maurice Francis English, John Lincoln Finan, Franklin Gay Folger, Oliver Garceau, Charles Clarke Glavin, Edwin Paul Gordon, Henry Greenberg, John Dickson Hersey, Winfield Adelbert Huppuch, Elliott Samuel Hurwaitt, James Francis Kane, Jr., Alfred Kidder, 2d, Harlan Michael Levin, James Marcellus Lichliter, Edmund Lieberman, Robert Baddow Lisle, John Hamilton McCallum, William Alexander McGivney...
Fourteen prominent members of the Faculty appearing as contributors are: J. H. Beale '82, G. D. Birkhoff '05, W. B. Cannon '96, T. N. Carver, hon., Sheldon Cheney Gr. '13, E. F. Gay '08, A. B. Hart '80, W. E. Hocking '01, A. Lawrence Lowell '77, K. B. Murdock '16, Roscoe Pound LL.D. '20, the late J. H. Ropes '89, F. W. Taussig '79, A. N. Whitehead...