Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HILL OF LIES-Heinrich Mann- Dutton ($2.50). The meteoric rise of a German peasant girl. The author's chief claim to fame is that he is Thomas Mann's brother...
Russian Dance -- Petrouchka--Grand Carnival--Nurses' Dance--The Bear and the Peasant Playing a Hand Organ--The Merchant and the Gypsies -- The Dance of the Coachmen and Grooms--The Masqueraders. Stravinsky Suite from "L'Oiseau de Feu", a Danced Legend
...that France is a quality-producer (TIME, Feb. 4). France's solution is to produce less. Last week there were nearly half a million Frenchmen on relief (alltime high), many times that number living out of the sacred family stocking. Also last week the leader of the Peasant Front, Henry Dorgeres, was telling the farmers of Normandy and Brittany...
Although he worked on a community farm, where food was plentiful, this peasant died of starvation. He had crawled into his little hay cart to rest from his forced labor and never woke...
...Commissar Furmanov is detailed to consolidate the army's gains for the Bolsheviks. Making fine use of the delightful Russian sense of humor, the director has told much in the clashes between the quiet Furmanov and the fiery, jealous, and naively conceited Chapayev. But in contrast to his simple peasant mind is Chapayev's ability as a military strategist, of which we have just a glimpse as he tersely explains a military problem with the help of a few potatoes, cigarettes, and a pipe...