Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benito Mussolini in his big office. They were representative of the 94 big winners in his More Babies Contest who have had 727 children (7.7 apiece) in the last eleven years. Each received from the Dictator last week five crisp new 1,000 lira bills, and to an Italian peasant 5,000 lire is a great deal more than its exchange equivalent in the U. S. ($263). Each also received a paid-up insurance policy. Of the 94 champions one is an Italian noblewoman, mother of seven...
...peasant shambles on his boots like hooves Without thinking at all or wanting to run in grooves. And the moneyed, sophisticated city man seems in worse shape: I who was Harlequin in the childhood of the century, Posed by Picasso beside an endless opaque sea, Have seen myself sifted and splintered in broken facets, Tentative pencillings, endless liabilities, no assets...
Tale of Bali escapes the lush romanticism of most South Sea island romances, will remind most readers of The Good Earth. Its central character is a good-natured, lusty young peasant named Pak, who is superstitious about religious matters but a resourceful realist about women, cockfights and politics...
Because the prince had appropriated his champion fighting cock and put out his brother's eyes for having an affair with a harem woman, Peasant Pak lies low during the fighting, wastes no time mourning his jasmine-scented leader. Realist Pak's patriotism is concentrated on his rice fields and chickens, his exciting second wife and his own neck...
...Chamber today a heavy majority of deputies are supporters of Premier George Tatarescu whose National Liberal Party is nearly as reactionary as the Iron Guard. Leader of the Opposition is the Peasant Party's active Ion Mihalache. Recently Premier Tatarescu resigned, King Carol asked M. Mihalache to try to form a Cabinet, and the Opposition leader refused with these hot words: "The King and M. Tatarescu were putting on a show-actually nothing was further from their intentions than to permit me to become Premier! The offer was made under impossible conditions." Thereupon M. Tatarescu was again named Premier...