Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STONES AWAKE-Carleton Beals- Lippincott ($2.50). The long, descriptive, awkwardly-written chronicle covering the affairs of a beautiful, sympathetic Mexican peasant girl, Esperanza, from the Diaz regime of 1910 to the present. Her adventures include two love affairs, widowhood, direct or indirect participation in many a revolution...
...step. . . . She is one of the finest and most beautiful girls that ever lived. ... A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength.'' Thus U. S. newsreaders learned of the most recent development in what has gradually become one of the most celebrated peasant families in the populous Balkans...
...those books that are interesting for the facts they give on unfamiliar environments, but are made tedious by hackneyed and romantic plots. Louis Adamic's interesting facts include descriptions of the perils faced by Balkan bastards. In pre-War Croatia these waifs, called fachooks, were commonly placed in peasant homes in wild regions. As long as funds were regularly provided for their upkeep they were kept alive, but if the money ran out they were done away with by any of several traditional means-they were left in cold air alter a very hot bath, were fed heavily after...
...tedious romance of Cradle of Life deals with an aristocratic fachook who grew up in one of these peasant households, escaped it only to find that its ties were too strong to be broken. Learning to love his pathetic, awkward foster mother, Rudo Stanka suffered agony each time a new waif was brought to the poverty-ridden hut to die. He did not solve the mystery of his birth until he had been whisked away to a castle, educated. Then he discovered that he was the son of Rudolf, the brilliant, impetuous heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary...
About 60,000 expectant peasant mothers will immediately benefit, receiving cash compensation for pay lost while they must stop work, and something besides for the midwife. However, Italian farm mothers of the type to whom Il Duce geared his oration last week are apt to consider the calling in of a doctor or midwife no more necessary for a healthy woman than for a healthy...