Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squad of native guardsmen. The little brown men waved their rifles, ordered everybody out of the machine. They pushed aside Father Sandino and the Minister of Agriculture. Sandino, his brother and his two generals they hustled into a motor truck. The truck careened out past long rows of silent peasant shacks, past the airport, to the little crossroads of La Reynaga. A few frightened Indians peered from their cabins as the guardsmen prodded four men in polished black puttees to the ground. A machine gun barked in the night. Four corpses sprawled on the ground. A guardsman pumped...
...stand out against a predominantly anti-Socialist Austria. "The Austrian republic was founded as a state with various autonomous provinces of which Vienna became a very important one," said Dr. Kraus. "In the mind of the Austrian, Vienna stands for organized labor; the rest of Austria for the peasants and burghers. The city is identified with its doctrinaire leaders, while the peasant of the country is used to looking to the Church for leadership. Consequently it has become identified with anti-clericalism and rationalization in the economic field, while the provinces stand for the Church and a peasant conservatism...
Speechmaking is a great part of every Red Army officer's job and "Klim" on the platform compares favorably with General Johnson. Peasant born and bred to the trade of a foundry workman, Russia's War Commissar spends much time inspecting and orating to collective farms and factories. In 1931, when trouble with Japan first loomed, and again in 1933 ''Klim" inspected not only the whole Soviet Far East frontier but the leading mines, smelters, metallurgical plants, factories and, on his last trip, the colonies of ex-Red soldiers now being established by Dictator Stalin...
Mackerel Skies (by John Haggart; George Bushar and John Tuerk, producers). What has happened before the play begins: Elsa (Violet Kemble Cooper), hot-blooded Austrian noblewoman, marries a prince, has a daughter (Carol Stone) by a peasant (Tom Powers), exhausts the prince's fortune in pursuit of a singing career, deserts prince & peasant to marry a Manhattan broker, fails dismally as a diva. What happens during the play: Grown to adolescence, the daughter displays a voice inherited not from her noble mother but from her peasant father who reappears as a wheat tycoon to oppose Elsa's jealous...
...country, ending this week in Manhattan. Sometime lawyer, author, art critic, children's magazine publisher and War hero, Podrecca began his Teatro dei Piccoli in Rome in 1913. In 1923 he married Cissie Vaughan, an Irishwoman, who sings the parts of Josephine Baker and Don Juan's peasant girl. Says her husband: "As an Irishwoman she is the most Italian of the English-speaking peoples. As an Italian, I am the most Irish of the Latins. . . . The one element in the theatre which serves to kill illusion is the presence of human beings." Come of Age (by Clemence...