Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both observers deem the Soviet State scrupulous in fulfilling the letter of its agreements, and yet inclined to adopt what Miss Thompson calls "a rather Machiavellian attitude," when it proves possible to mulct or ruin a foreign capitalist while still keeping within the limits of his concession agreement...
Although both he and Miss Thompson were oppressed by the feeling of being constantly spied upon, and although each tried the experiment of leaving private papers in calculated disarray around their hotel rooms, neither was ever able to detect the slightest tampering with their documentary bait...
...Army. "I do not think," writes Miss Thompson, "that anyone who has ever seen a Red Army demonstration will ever again treat Communism as a joke. . . . The army is ... well fed, well clothed and well housed ... a compact army of 562,000 . . . absolutely proletarian in its sympathies...
Purity. "The bedroom farce and the sex novel do not exist in Russia. . . . There is a refreshing freedom from sex consciousness. . . . Men and women go swimming in the same lake or river, without bathing suits. . . ." Thus Miss Thompson plumbs the purity of Russian minds...
...huge pine tree caught fire in Leaf, Miss., and a bus full of school children started out for school. As the car bumped along the road, the tree tottered; when the car was precisely under it, the pine tree leaned slowly and fell, as true as a golden hammer, killing the driver and five of the children...