Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ivan Bunin- Knopf ($2.50). Three months ago few U. S. readers had ever heard of Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin. Now, by grace of his recently-won Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 20), the U. S. public is aware of his name if not of his books. To take advantage of his sudden fame, Publisher Knopf rushed two Bunin reprints (The Gentleman from San Francisco, The Village) through the press, last fortnight brought out his latest (translated) novel, The Well of Days. Readers of this grave, sensitive but unmodern autobiographical novel may now see what Author Bunin is about, will agree that...
...high in Moscow fortnight ago when Dictator Stalin told the 17th Russian Communist Party Congress: "Those who attack us will get such a decisive blow that they will learn to keep their swinish snouts out of our potato patch. . . . We must take every precaution to prepare ourselves against sudden attacks in the Far East. . . . Relations between Japan and the U. S. S. R. need serious improvement. . . . One section of the military party in Japan openly advocates the necessity of war against the U. S. S. R. . . . The Japanese Government instead of calling these incendiaries to order, washes its hands...
...after maneuvering Trotsky out of office by the tactics of political bossism. still had to break the popularity which made "Trotsky" a name of power. Appointed Commissar of War was Trotsky's bitter foe, Comrade Michael Frunze. He "broke" every Trotskyist officer, but grew too powerful himself. His sudden death Stalin's enemies attribute universally to poison. Stalin's next move was to hand the Army, Navy and Air Force over to a man of whom the Soviet public had never heard, a Red general 13th on the Red Army's ranking list, big, hearty Klimentiy...
Shrewd, the Government had counted on Bore Car to disperse the Opposition. Slyly, Government Deputies kept their seats, passed the Constitutional amendment by a sudden snap vote, sent it to the Senate before the napping Opposition woke...
...they had ceased to do their duty. Society today is little tolerant of useless shibboleths. If we demand our privileges and refuse our duties we cannot expect so long a shrift as was granted the "ancien regime," and we can only hope that our fall may be, not less sudden, but less fatal...