Word: yar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throng of veterans. Citizen spectators tangled with the soldiers, were ordered to "get the hell out of the way." The Government buildings were methodically gassed. A huge Negro sat in a crotch of a tree, waving a U. S. flag and sonorously chanting: "God that gave us this h'yar country...
Before the War most typical of the gay luxuriance of Moscow was Yar's famed restaurant where gypsies sang and danced. A favorite at Yar's was Singer Nastia Poliakova whose deep, dark voice perfectly suited the purely emotional substance, the rambling, improvised style of gypsy songs. After the revolution Poliakova went to sing in a Paris cafe. This year she is in the U. S. to submit her informal, indefinable talent to the test of formal concerts. Manhattan liked her so much that last week she gave a second pro gram there, announced a third...
...Last fiscal yar the U.S. jailed 11,192 convicts. Largest class: dry law violators, 3,389. Other imprisonment: 2,234 under Harrison Narcotic Act; 1,515 under Dyer Automobile Theft Act; 903 under postal laws; 236 under Mann...