Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bespectacled Mr. Ginsberg was then produced by Planner Mezhlauk. To his satisfaction Mr. Ginsberg proved to Dictator Stalin & Commissars that in the U. S. building industry one U.S. workman accomplishes as much in a given time as four Russians in the Soviet building industry. In the stone cutting industry, said Mr. Ginsberg, one U.S. quarryman equals ten Russians...
...STONE CAME ROLLING - Fielding...
...They knew that the proletarian-heroes would be heroic, the capitalist-villains villainous; that in many a purple passage minor characters would hold forth like major prophets; that the gloriously tragic defeat of the heroes would leave its ineradicable Marx. Readers of Marching! Marching! and A Stone Came Rolling found them obedient to this pattern...
...many readers who missed Fielding Burke's Call Home the Heart (1932) might get through several hands of A Stone Came Rotting without thinking they were sitting in on anything more antisocial than a game of hearts. But sooner or later they will realize that Author Burke's pastoral pack has a dialectic joker in it. A sequel to her first book, A Stone Came Rolling reintroduces Ishma, the hillbilly Judith; her physical but saintly husband Britt, et al. In tone and texture a kind of reincarnation of the works of Gene Stratton Porter, with Rose...
During this interval, at a table decorated with pink roses, stevia and maidenhair fern, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt entertained at luncheon Mmes Charles Evans Hughes, William Howard Taft, Louis Brandeis, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler, Harlan F. Stone and Owen J. Roberts...