Word: bolshevikis
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...their own efforts or to the fortune amassed for them by a considerate father, will be men of affairs and captains of industry. And they will read some morning of a strike. . . . How pleasant it will be ... to frown at the morning's news and murmur, 'Bolsheviki,' 'hoodlums,' 'vandals...
...labelled it a feast of Lucullus. With watering mouth and rising temperature, the author of the reply listed the vintages arrayed before the Russians: Sauterne, claret, champagne port, brandy, and vodka. It drew the moral that a society tea is but a quick lunch beside a good, luscious, Bolsheviki spread...
What gives the project its touch of genius is the tender-hearted stipulation that each year the equivalent of $2,000,000 will be given away in lotteries to lucky bondholders. The Bolsheviki crudely killed the capitalists; the French socialists propose to tax their moneyed classes unmercifully; Pangalos gives the Greek tax-payer a mathematical chance. In spite of the snipping of notes, the snapping of jaws will be lessened by the hope of luck...
Like to like and Mr. Mencken to the wilds of Russia, not to undergo the taunts of the Bolsheviki, nor yet to spend a Siberian winter collecting Polar Beariana; but to see his mental meanderings mirrored in the village of Zitlieff. There the peasants, according to the current "Time", administer a justice, the physical counterpart of Menckenism...
...stated that from what he had seen before he left China, and from what he has seen since he has been in America, that the Bolsheviki are playing a minor part in the Communistic revolution...