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...Popular Frontists as they entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri was hit, for he was seen to fall twice; nevertheless he crawled up to the church wall. Half a minute later both charges went off with a sharp crack, tearing the two volunteers limb from limb. This was immediately followed by a dull, heavy roar...
Lighting it with a cigar or cigaret is easier and quieter...
Climax of Ben's life occurs when he falls in love with a queen. Ruler of a small country famed for its tyranny, she is on a visit arranging a loan; Ben meets her by accident while she is sneaking a last cigaret before a state reception begins. Although the Queen, in manner, speech and display of her girlish charms, has a good deal in common with less elevated wenches, Ben is straightway transported by his love to the isles of enchantment. At a house party with her he makes a romantic fool of himself before her worldly companions...
Best part of Two Worlds deals with China. Lester Cohen had wanted to find out something definite about the Chinese Soviets in the interior, had even contemplated trying to visit them. But after he had lived in Shanghai, Nanking, Soochow, Peiping, met an anti-Japanese volunteer who used a cigaret tin for a gas mask, seen "bandit-artists" being led off to jail because their pictures ran counter to government decrees, been offered a Chinese virgin for $17, his desire to learn more about the Chinese revolutionists left him. Day after day he thought he could see the social fabric...
...delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded in gauze. The voice of a man amplified to unearthliness rumbled through the hall. Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, a midget in white, stood in a blaze of golden light from batteries of lights above his head. Everywhere cigaret smoke curled through the blue beams of eight great floodlights glaring down from the murk upon the G. O. P.'s quadrennial passion play of politics...