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...capitalist. The extremes and contrasts that are always a part of Russia extend even more sharply as the country seeks rebirth and who find workers whose absorbing life interest is simply to exceed the production quota, who write down their thoughts in note-books and yet who cat "cabbage soup from rusty cans...
...hastily escaped from Russia. There were 16 refugees crowded into the third-class compartment which carried them across Siberia. And when they reached San Francisco via Japan and Honolulu nothing seemed so strange as the way U. S. residents spread themselves out, unless it was the way they ate soup for the first part of their dinner instead of the last. Last week Jascha Heifetz arrived in New York on the fashionable Conte di Savoia carrying, besides his $45,000 Guarnerius, a $5 quarter-size violin on which he, aged 3, had learned to play. He had been in Russia...
...before this report was presented, Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, and the rotund Earl of Derby, member of the parliamentary committee on Indian reform, had invited the Manchester men to dinner at Lord Derby's London house, had filled them full of soft words, turtle soup and tawny port, had persuaded them to rewrite the report that they were about to submit...
...long as the world bought Zion candy bars, Zion cookies. Zion lace, Zion books and Zion cement it could smile as it would at Wilbur Glenn Voliva's dire prophecies and belief that the earth is soup-plate shaped. But it could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from...
...hunt was on in Chicago last week for a frying-pan that would sound A flat, a soup plate that would give G sharp, a tea cup in B. Four erratic-looking men went from one Loop store to another, producing pitch-pipes, whacking on merchandise with wooden spoons. Clerks tried to interest them in bargains. Customers tittered and asked bewildered floorwalkers what it was all about. But the four strange shoppers went on about their business. They were assembling a kitchen orchestra for part of the thank-you concert that the Chicago Symphony was giving the patrons...