Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another feature of the campaign was that the government placed 64 opposition candidates in jail "permitting them to stand for election but not to electioneer." One of these was M. Wincenty Witos, leader of the Peasant Party, thrice prime minister, locked up in the military prison at Brest-Litovsk without any charge being preferred against...
...that I venture to offer to the Italian people all that remains to me and all that from this date I may acquire to increase my inheritance. I, who once sang idly of ancient palaces and sumptuous villas; I have come to close my life in science in this peasant's house, not so much to humble myself as to test my own powers of creation and transfiguration...
From what was a "peasant's house" d'Annunzio created an exotic mansion and a shrine to genius (his). Its courtyard is the Piazza di Sospiri ("Palace of Sighs") because so many have waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when...
...hand in Krüger's fate: blunt Autocrat Otto Klenk ("Klenk is Klenk and signs himself Klenk"): Jewish Lawyer Geyer, with a frail body and a passion for logic and justice; Hessreiter, rich man by grace of a business of which he is ashamed; Dr. Bichler, blind, surly old peasant, who rules Bavaria from behind the scenes; Communist Kaspar Pröckl, bitter and untidy engineer who serves Reindl and cannot hate him successfully; Johanna Krain, friend of Krüger, who champions him, marries him in prison out of pity; Jacques Tüverlin, artist-spectator of the tragicomedy; Landholzer. madman...
Vagabonds will remind few readers of Author Hamsun's earlier books; its people are neither monumental peasant types nor furious eccentrics, but ordinary voting citizens. Hamsun's 71-year-old creative energy is burning with a low blue flame...