Word: swine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asks Henri to live under an assumed name, that the hero legend may survive and that he, Bachelet, may remain a minister of France. Henri accepts the situation France. Henri accepts the situation with the bitter resolve that having returned from the hell of war into a world of swine, he will himself fight and grasp and be a greater swine than all of them. It is a strong play, conviucingly acted, and it has the unpleasantness that is often the companion of truth...
...Russian merchant ships. The Soviet agent in charge of this subversive activity told in early letters how "choice of the men was carefully made, preference being given to Negroes, Hindus and other oppressed nationals." In later correspondence these "oppressed nationals" were declared to have turned out to be "lazy swine . . . the refuse of the Labor Party . . . slackers and bad workers who drank or left the ships...
Animals-3 horses, 1 mule, 9 cattle, 8 swine, 6 sheep, 64 chickens...
...break my contract and pay me heavy damages. Therefore my book appeared last week with a bright red label stuck on the cover, reading: 'With pain at our heart we publish, in sheer respect for our contract, a new and most amusing book by that anti-Fascist swine- Blasco Ibanez.' This stratagem boosted the sale to 'best seller' figures...
...will do the farmer no good. For as soon as higher prices are created for a crop, more of that crop will be produced, and the last state will be worse than the first. Rebuttal: with fair prices for all crops (including swine), farmers will not tend to produce an excess of one and an insufficiency of another...