Word: proletarian
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Those who are struggling for the proletarian revolution have already seen their dream partly realized, he charged...
...flasked, short-skirted '20s, when John Held Jr.'s flat-chested flappers were all the rage and Judge and the old Life were the thing to copy. The jokes had not changed much since, but the imitative style had. In the depression, many became introspective, proletarian, or both; others took to aping Esquire and got suppressed for it. This year most campus editors seemed to have set themselves the goal of being local New Yorkers...
...small band headed by a Scottish bagpiper.* Then they were whisked away in buses furnished by the British Communist Party, which had decided to move them into an East End rest center maintained by the Government for building workers. But the building workers made a sad show of proletarian solidarity. With a cry of "Stand by your homes, lads," squads of threatened residents raced through the rest home, locking dormitory doors and posting guards...
Last week the principality was bracing itself against an even direr threat to its basic industry-the emergence of a Monegasque Communist Party. Its program, subscribed to by all 13 members, declared that gambling is immoral and will be abolished immediately after the triumph of the proletarian revolution...
Protection of the People. After the defeat of Germany, Tito, the proletarian proconsul, completely supplanted the pseudodemocrat. On the numerous new holidays he decreed, peasants in rich, fertile Croatia, villagers in hot, dry Dalmatia or highlanders in the barren Karst Mountains assembled in the public squares (under rigorous orders to display "sincere devotion") and chanted: "Tito belongs to us, we belong to Tito...