Word: proletarian
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...next war the proletariat be conscripted and put to work making munitions at the same pittance British soldiers receive. If by any chance such a recommendation were enacted by the House of Commons into Law, Britain's next war would probably be featured by strikes, labor riots, irresistible proletarian demands for a "living wage" and much Communist incitement to Revolution. Said Sir Harry McGowan grimly: "In my view, in private manufacturing concerns, conscription could not be operated...
...appeared as "awful money." Another typical Shively item appearing last December: "The latest issue (July) of the illustrated monthly magazine, U. S. S. R. in Construction, to reach this country has a bit of Tartar humor in the caption to a photograph. It reads: 'General View of the Proletarian Section, Moscow.' Presumably that is the part of town where only the poor people live...
...pons asinorum is free to all comers and even the eternal triangle's points are true for either hemisphere. On such a Euclidean axiom James Hanley posits his latest diatribe, in novel form, against the race that calls itself human but shows itself English. Readers who fear the proletarian author even when he is writing about love can safely pocket their qualms: Author Hanley complains of nothing more subversive than the fact that stokers, too, have hearts and flea-bitten wenches can make them bleed...
...beaten Pete, was almost killed by vigilantes. But the organization he had started went on, through the hell & high water of frame-ups, terrorism, raids, arrests. The big strike came off as planned-but what its outcome will be Author Weatherwax leaves to the realistic reader. Her proletarian agonists are last seen marching bravely down the street to meet the bayonets of the National Guard, not yet forced to believe that bullets will stop their song...
...fatal woman: Bly drowned himself because of her while Britt was killed defending her fair name. Author Burke, true to her literary gods, cannot ring down on her heroine the curtain she deserves: the book ends with Ishma in her prison cell hearing the thunder of proletarian feet rushing to release...