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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrified to learn that this gesture, called cornuto, is a well-known symbol for cuckoldry in Latin countries-horrified because I had in my ignorance and innocence used the identical gesture as a gag in a forthcoming Donald Duck picture, The Hockey Champ...
...German Imperial Government. Another White Russian espionage centre is Prague, where White Russian Cossack General P. C. Popov operates. He has recently visited Belgrade, Budapest and Sofia, rounding up old "patriots" for service in the coming Ukrainian campaign. Significant it is that many White Russians of known anti-Communist leanings have found good "jobs" in "poor" Ruthenia...
...Soviet Ukraine, is an industrial city specializing in farm equipment. Instead of growing only wheat, the Ukraine's rich, black soil now produces sugar beets, flax, cotton. Fully 96% of the land is now collectivized. From the Ukraine come some of the Soviet's best-known figures: Alexei Stakhanov, author of the speed-up system, Maria Demchenko, champion sugar-beet raiser, Valentin Kataev, Soviet author. The Ukrainian language, outlawed by the Tsar, is not only now allowed but fostered...
Lancaster, Lincoln, North Woodstock, Warren, and Whitefield all report fair skiing, but the rest of the well known trails are either poor or unusable...
Associate Professor of English at Columbia University, Van Doren is well known as a poet, critic, and editor. He has written studies of Thoreau, Dryden, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. His own books of verse include: "Spring Thunder," "7 P. M.," "Now the Sky," 'A Winter Diary," "The Last Look," and others. He is editor of the "Oxford Book of American Prose," "American Poets 1930-1930," "An Autobiography of America," and "An Anthology of World Poetry...