Judge — June 11, 1932 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Shop Talk Theve Is A Village In Russia Consisting Entirely Of Profes- sional Pocts “Vy ELL, Ivan, how are things coming along?” “Pretty well, Petrovitch, but only pretty well. We're ahead of the Five Year Plan quota on sonnets, but rhymed couplets bad—very bad.” “Ye: hat’s the fault of that Unit No. Three. Unit Number Three has been lagging for almost a yes now. They need new management “Um, maybe, but they're not en tirely to blame. It’s chiefly on ac- count of that Rhym Dictionary factory over in Bladnovosk. It isn’t turning out rhyming dictionaries half fast enough, and—well, what chance have our coupleteers got?” “That's so. I hadn't thought of Dos IMiITATOR—Somehody stole my clothes! that. This Five Year Plan is so darn complex. but my unit is cer- tainly ing great guns. We've been averaged five yards a day of iambic pentameter blank verse for the last five months. There isn’t any capi- talistic country that can hold a candle to that.” ad fis sity not, only of course bl: verse sier than odes. ode unit isn't averaging: over a ya and a half, but we'll be up to 1.5193 rds by 1953, and that’s the figure Stalin has set for us.” “Twas thinking it was 1.5197, but that’s close enouyh. They say the peasants are yrumbliny, though. They say that some peasants are only setting: an ode a year for the whole “Banoer Linn family—and you know how bie some comicbooks.com