Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...world of other nations. While writers have written of a vague Social Experiment, propaganda of all kinds has tended to confuse the actual Russian scene. Negley Farson with a photographic eye and a clear reportorial style has observed contemporary Russian life in the closest possible way and, in "Black Bread and Red Coffins", has written a compelling book about...
...picture is not pleasant. The average standard of living in Russia is unbelievably low. Peasant squalor exists around half-destroyed churches containing the art of eight centuries. Loud speakers bleat communist propaganda into stond uncomprehending faces. On the whole, however, life is livable and looks to the future. "Black Bread and Red Coffins" brings a shadowy nation into clear relief. In the prison, in the courtroom, in the Bureau of Marriage and Divorce, and in the village world, representative personalities are etched in living and human detail...
...interpretations of 'mammy' songs. By popular request the Senior Tutor will cast aside academic dignity as a concession to the holiday season, and sing that famous and lachrymose lyric of the frigid Forties, entitled 'Father's a Drunkard and Mother's Dead, or Poor Little Bessie's Plea for Bread...
...Received a proposal from Thomas Dunbar Green, president of American Hotels Association, that hotels throughout the land donate a daily quota of soup and bread to hungry jobless...
...stories. Some of them: A farmer accuses himself of the murder of his wife, but he imagined it all. A hired man falls in love with the lady he works for, but doesn't interrupt her wedding after all. A bitter woman sacrifices her secret formula for the best bread ever baked. A burglar willy-nilly witnesses a death scene, is converted by it, comes forward to explain, is arrested. An old man knows he is a burden, takes care that his suicide shall give as little trouble as possible. Zona Gale has seen through the salability of plot...