Word: one
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...one-horse, Socialist-minded Chicago publisher printed a small edition of Gustavus Myers' History of the Great American Fortunes. Its author was a fact-worshipping reporter of Philadelphia and Manhattan who had spent eight years digging out his facts. No other publisher would touch it-they feared it was "of such a nature ... as to get us into a great deal of trouble." Declared a typical nose-holding review (New York Times): "It leaves such a bad taste in the mouth that readers may be cordially advised to read something else...
When the Romanovs 'came to the throne 300 years ago they were "provincial nobodies." They managed, in their time, to produce three colossal figures (Alexander I, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great), one kind man (Alexander II, who freed the serfs, was killed by a bomb). The rest were monsters, comic grotesques, mental cases, or blank nonentities: calf-eyed Mihaïl, who died of melancholia; Elizabeth, the hard-drinking, nominally virgin queen whose beer-barrel figure enabled her to pass off her pregnancies as "indigestion"; infantile, impotent Peter III and insane Paul, "as ugly and misshapen...
...Catherine II also was less Great than advertised, more liberal in word than in deed: The peasants "sank to the lowest level of slavery during her so-called enlightened reign." "She was a fairly clever woman . . . such a one as, given the means, might make a success as a London hostess...
...One-eyed, gifted Prince Potemkin, best-beloved among Catherine's shoals of lovers, "looked not unlike Charlie Chaplin." He got away and took a rest from passion whenever he could. Tableau of "the broad Russian nature": Potemkin, at the battlefront, in his underground palace, amusing himself, between attacks of acute melancholia, with concubines, an orchestra, guitars...
...money, instead of rice, as a medium of exchange. More moneyed farmers may now hire labor instead of exchanging it. In this rural microcosm of Japan, Embree distinguishes six classes: upper upper, lower upper, upper middle, lower middle, upper lower, lower lower. Some 27% of households have at least one servant, 26% include someone educated beyond the village school, 12% subscribe to newspapers. Suye Mura has one motorcycle, no automobiles, 160 bicycles, four sewing machines, five radios, 20 phonographs, and one telephone (in the village office...