Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like St. Gandhi?though in less degree ?President de Valera is opposed to the Machine Age, vigorously encourages farming, dairying, stock breeding, handicrafts and small-scale peasant industry. The famed Shannon River Power Station has wrought its chief results not in supplying industrial power but in lighting tiny cottages, keeping craftsmen's lathes turning...
...thousand?' the teacher inquired. 'Well then a million!'" retorted generous Schoolboy Stalin. Berlin rumors last week that famed Professor Hermann Zondek, specialist in internal diseases, had left for Moscow "ostensibly to lecture but actually to treat Herr Stalin" vexed the Dictator. Pulling on his heavy peasant boots he clumped off to the State Opera, sat in a front box wearing an old khaki blouse, appeared to enjoy Othello...
...Excellency Rachele Mussolini continued to mind her motherly business in complete obscurity last week. She is a peasant, the daughter of the keeper of a tiny village inn, invincibly modest and wholesome. To say that // Duce ignores Her Excellency and lives a bachelor's life in Rome is to ignore the fact that he also visits her from time to time in Milan or on their farm at Forli in northern Italy, bounces their latest babe upon his knee and otherwise demonstrates his warm family feelings...
...France, the motherland, Foundling Marie Basilide lavished the love that her parents never stayed to receive. Motherland France did not reciprocate this love; the native peasant boys took it personally. From the boys Marie occasionally accepted small gifts-"a knife, a printed handkerchief, a ruler, or a tobacco pouch, but never a penny unless it had a hole...
...adventures in childish asceticism, giving away all his toys, pricking his cheeks with oleander leaves, ended when his father made him give some strips of his skin to graft on a peasant's arm. From the family attic he stole a mummified arm, scared a schoolboy into fits with it. Childhood came to an end when he was sent off to learn from a priest. On his way home after the interview he passed a dead willow, with a hollow branch that looked like a snake's head. Into the hollow he stuck the contents of his pockets...