Word: pavlenko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reports that nominating bodies throughout the Soviet Union were all trying to nominate Stalin as their candidate. Some 1,143 new elective offices have been created and means will have to be found to keep the Dictator from being elected to each. Last week "Most Popular Soviet Novelist" Peter Pavlenko sloganed: "For richer fields and bigger rivers, for better mines and still more triumphant airplanes, for faster ships, for deeper knowledge of our fatherland-for Stalin...
...profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work was turned in by one Madame Pavlenko, a big earthy contralto who stepped to the footlights, closed her eyes, intoned the Gretchanmoff Credo with rare devotional fervor...
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