Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boned Queen Elena was the daughter of lusty, barrel-shaped Nicholas I, peasant King of Montenegro. Roman gossips have always insisted that the marriage was arranged to rejuvenate the inbred House of Savoy. Peasant Queen Elena's appreciation of art is elementary. Scholars of the American Academy in Rome still remember the occasion two years ago when she paused uncertainly before a stylized picture of a nude Europa balanced on the back of a swimming bull and demanded in her booming voice, "Why is de cow sticking out de tongue?" With her hands folded over her stomach, she moved...
...Author, Born in Moscow in 1899 Author Leonov comes of peasant stock living in the rural, backwoods province of Kaluga. His father was a self-taught poet, later a journalist, exiled to Archangel under the Tsar. Leonid graduated from the Third Moscow Gymnasium in 1918, was refused admission to Moscow University in 1922 after demobilization from the Red Army. He then moved to Archangel to be near his father. His first writings were in verse; his first novel, Barsuki (The Badgers) was published in 1925. Other books: Rasskazy (Tales), Golubye Pesky (Blue Sand), Vor (The Thief), Sot (Fodder). In Soviet...
...movie is adapted from a story by Marcel Allard. The plot concerns itself with the vicissitudes of a young peasant girl, who is betrothed to a doctor, but runs away with her music teacher, and is married to him. The poverty of her husband, who is an opera singer, irks her and in despair over his jealousy she returns to the jilted doctor. Life with him is equally troublesome, and after another reversal of affections she again leaves him for the singer...
...great evils of woman's lot. The thought that she will have to content herself with arranging flowers, ordering meals, with bridge and beauty-parlor and matinee, is a serious deterrent to marriage. ..." The Mirror editor inserted a reproduction of "The Gleaners," showing three peasant women at the back-breaking task of gathering the grain left by the reapers. He captioned it: "... Masterpiece by Frangois Millet, depicts the kind of work that many employers seem to think women should confine themselves to, instead of taking men's jobs...
There was no rest for Waldemar either. Because in his anguish he imprecated God. he was condemned after death to ride through the skies nightly accompanied by his dead vassals. A peasant gibbered with fear the night he heard the coffin rattling overhead and the church door banging. The male choristers were the wild-riding skeletons, longing for release...