Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When news of this reached the Kremlin fury knew no bounds. Nobody knows better than shrewd Josef Stalin that the shrewd Russian peasant is a born ironist, famed for taking cracks at his masters by sly indirection. That one of the Dictator's pet collective farms should have staged an assassination of Red by Red, no matter under what pretext, meant just one thing in Russia. Last week Pravda, newsorgan of the Party, banned any further staged assassinations, denounced Saratov's rustic thespians, demanded their instant punishment...
Scrubby-bearded, crinkly-eyed old Michail Ivanovich Kalinin, Soviet President and popular front man for Dictator Stalin, brought delegates of the Moscow Province Soviet cheering and stamping to their feet last week with one of his characteristic speeches in homely peasant argot. "Less bread will be eaten when we have more pigs," began the hovel-born President wisely. "Those who do not care for pork will eat potatoes with genuine Russian butter [cheers] or, if they do not like butter, with genuine lard [huzzahs]. When we have enough of these products we will flood Russia with them! And moreover, when...
...House Divided quits the Chinese hinterland of peasant and warlord for an unnamed treaty port and for the life of a Chinese student in the U. S. Wang Yuan, son of Wang the Tiger of Sons, is part of the ferment of the "new China" of Sun Yatsen...
...onlooker hating violence, Yuan plays no vital part in the revolution that brought Chiang Kai-shek to Nanking. Mrs. Buck's faintly archaic Biblical rhythms, so well-adapted to the peasant and patriarchal life of an older China, falter when she tries to suggest the clutter of the coastal cities and the amazement of a young Chinese in the U. S. Her style has been compared by her more enthusiastic followers to the prose of the King James Bible. Critic Stark Young has attempted to put the quietus to this claim by printing some of Pearl Buck and some...
...Graham of Carbondale, Pa. and Mrs. W. N. Wagner of Waterford. Mich. Jounced by the waters beyond endurance, they presented such a spectacle of woe that even with bandits hot on the junks trail there was nothing to do but pull ashore. In a rude Chinese peasant hut Missionary Doctor George Totell of Chicago performed the hasty, almost simultaneous deliveries-from Mrs. Graham a daughter, then from Mrs. Wagner a son. Piling back aboard the junks, the 36 who had become 38, tore on to safety, arrived splashed and wind-bitten at Changsha where Dr. Totell announced that both mothers...