Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to think out her life in terms of mental and spiritual progress," agreed the proletarian Post. "The effort, it seems, betrayed...
...Foundation has concentrated lately on little ones, although few Fellowships have gone to people without a respectable body of work behind them. This year's literary crop is notable for its youth (average age: 35) and radicalism, a fact which should go far to silence ill-willed proletarian snarls that the Guggenheim Foundation is a "capitalist racket" conceived to avoid income taxes...
Taking the cue from Dr. Rice, the huge, proletarian New York Daily News forthwith launched an editorial campaign. It was criminal and foolish, said the News, to withhold from the public a full & free knowledge of venereal prophylaxis. The News soon discovered that the subject was alive with reader interest. Many of the paper's 2,900,000 purchasers wrote in to praise it for frankness and public spirit. Others denounced the paper for encouraging immorality. And a few News readers told how they had contracted tragic ailments for want of proper information...
...realist, Walter Greenwood gives his poverty-stricken story a fresh angle, distinguishes it from the monotonous, incredible heroics of most proletarian fiction. Main reason the wretched people in Love on the Dole are believable is that they spend little time trying to adjust the work to themselves. Barely surviving, they have their lives full trying to adjust themselves to the world...
...probably the only proletarian in America" chuckled Robert Frost, poetic interpreter of the New England spirit and current Charles Eliot Norton lecturer, as he chatted of poetry, Harvard and of life in general...