Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says 60-year-old Mother Robinson: "My boy doesn't smoke, drink or gamble. He is a perfect gentleman and everybody who knows him loves him. He finds it hard to send me anything to live on here in New York because of the Russian laws that stop money from being sent out of the country. I manage, by the help of the Lord, to live after a fashion, but New York is a hard city to live in. Last year my boy visited me, so he could renew his American passport...
...Russia Perfect Gentleman Robert Robinson is famed because of the Communist propaganda trial put on in his honor in 1930 at Stalingrad where he was working as a machinist. Two white U. S. machinists objected violently to being lumped with a "nigger" at meals. They were solemnly tried, convicted of "race prejudice," and one was banished from the Soviet Union...
...member may leave his seat, ascend the tribune and manifest himself. Instead, Moscow Soviet Delegates sit in pews. Their pew seats have arms which fold up to admit them, then snap down into place. They are not locked in, but might as well be. For an individual Delegate like Perfect Gentleman Robert Robinson to manifest himself in opposition is all but impossible. In practice the Moscow Soviet always votes unanimously as No. 1 Delegate Joseph Stalin indicates...
...pass from pain to perfect grace...
...with some Debussy piano music, Mary Garden swept on the stage in her oldtime glamorous way. Her singing, as ever, was curiously uneven and husky, a weird combination of song and emotionalized speech. For sensitive listeners who could forget formal vocal technique each of her Debussy songs was a perfect blend of text and music...