Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unavoidably the Indians, who do most of Bolivia's fetching and carrying, are sunk in degraded peonage. The small ruling class of Spanish descent has but one callous, inevitable aim-to keep the Indians down. Last year some 50,000 peons, many half starved, attempted a desperate revolt. They were quelled by the bayonet. Official Bolivian despatches described the uprising as "Communistic...
...River - Yarosalve, Samara and Stalingrad. The latter and famed town is not the birth place of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin but a strategic base which he valorously defended against the "White Armies" during the Bolshevist Revolution. Son-of-Ivan. The Kulak murders of last week did not foreshadow a revolt of the peasantry as a whole, in the expert opinion of veteran New York Times Correspondent Walter Duranty; but unquestionably they troubled the minds and frayed the nerves of the statesmen who rule Russia from Moscow's thick-walled and tall-towered Kremlin. Perhaps, of these resolute rulers...
Hotbed. It is the conviction of those who write plays for Broadway that Puritanism is not a state of mind but a vice; thus they attack it with knives and reformatory fury, instead of explaining it. Hotbed, like Revolt a week ago. deals with a blue-nosed divine, the Rev. David Rushbrook. The scene of his hypocritical virtuosities is a college this time, for Author Paul Osborn himself has been a pedagogue. An assistant professor seduced the Rev. Rushbrook's daughter, after drinking whiskey...
...foresees, for instance, a happy solution to Harvard's present eating problem in the House plan. Overlooking entirely the revolt against former eating requirements at Memorial Hall, and the diminishing number of men who one the Freshman dining halls as the year advances, he believes that future generations will not find themselves "cribbed, cabined, and confined by reasonable requirements as to eating in their Houses." Again in defiance of all Harvard experience with common dining halls he says that in the new Houses "food will be more wholesome and eating will be more civilized and enjoyable...
...Revolt. Author Harry Wagstaff Gribble (who wrote also that near masterpiece. March Hares) announces his theme as though he had himself discovered it. That the children of a fundamentalist preacher should become annoyed at their father's limitations is neither surprising nor interesting. Eventually the clergyman blows his brains out in an improbable manner...