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Before each ancestor the pillow swooped excitingly to the ground in obeisance. Prince Tsugu blinked his eyes...
...resentment about high room rents, and monotonous food, and broken fire doors. To those who know him by sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white collar, has seemed a character out of Harvard's past. Like his ancestor, the Puritan governor, Arthur Endicott has ruled his domain with an iron hand little softened by words of tact. The very air of an incongruously well-appointed Lehman Hall, has been chilled and rarified by a spirit of strict New England economy...
...present Fascist developments, and other movements of that kind are not real revolutions. They are fruitless and sterile. The average man of today is too flat; has not the 'springs' with which to drive himself into the future. He talks always of his ancestors; to get anywhere he should change inheritance to heritage, he should become an ancestor himself. The people of America seem to be rising out of this flatness better than those of any other nation they are coming to realize that the present day is equally, if not more, thrilling and interesting than the past...
...Century, through a shift in its priesthood which brought in a "Yellow" or reformed sect, Lamaism acquired a theocratic and infallible rule, divided between two men who both were Buddhas incarnate. One was the mighty Dalai Lama, temporal ruler of Tibet, master of the Potala fortress, incarnation of the ancestor of all Tibetans, the "Buddha of Mercy." The other was the spiritual ruler, the Panchen Lama, resident at Tashilunpo Monastery eight days distant by caravan, the 'Buddha of Boundless Light." The succession of the Panchen and Dalai Lamas was determined by the Tibetan hierarchy. Upon the death of either...
Green at his job of Finance Minister is plump, owlish Dr. H. H. Kung. Last week he buckled to the task of trying to balance China's budget with a sternness remindful of his great ancestor, China's uncompromising sage Confucius...