Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl Carroll Vanities, eleventh edition, is probably much the same show that the first edition was, or the fifth. But it seems infinitely duller. Carroll still has an eye for good-looking girls, but gone is all sense of showmanship, glitter, pace. An interminably long revue, and a slave to routine, the new Vanities rotates a song number, a ham comedian act and a leg parade all evening, like crops...
...tablecloth, caused by folding. These figures, of course, represent the thirteen original American colonies and the forty-eight states now belonging to the union. . . . It is interesting to find that a portrait of Charles Porter, Harvard undergraduate, is now hanging in the Wellesley Art Gallery. . . . In Turner's painting, "Slave Ship," chains are found to be floating on the surface of the water while the slaves to whom they are attached are gradually going under...
...which cost not less than 3,000,000 lives in 1932. It was a Stalin-made famine. The number of wrecks and industrial accidents became prodigious. Soviet officials laid it to sabotage. More likely they were due more to too rapid industrialization. Millions in penal colonies were forced into slave labor...