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...Richard Nixon's cocker spaniel, Checkers . . . Millions of American dog owners were carried away by the image of Checkers' sad eyes pleading: "My poor master," "mortgages," "old car," "policy loan," "Republican cloth coat," etc. They rushed to vote for Nixon. The resulting landslide for the Republicans, including the election of Eisenhower, was natural, if coincidental...
...street wears its usual mask of myrrh and mink; crowds still complain about the crowds; but padlocked boxes have replaced Salvation Army tambourines. Inside the big stores, cheese cloth cherubs still butter among the silvered spine boughs, but it now costs a quarter to see Santa Claus...
...breed children in the cold, thin air. Their wants are simple. If they have any money to spare, they sew it up in a piece of cowhide and bury it. A storekeeper who has dealt with them for years gives this comprehensive list of the things they buy: cotton cloth for shirts, plow points, dye, thread, needles, old automobile tires to be cut into sandals, sugar, chocolate, rice, macaroni, aspirin, second-hand sewing machines...
...painted cavity below lay the all but pulverized skeleton of a middle-aged man. His fine cloth raiment was in tatters, but his burial jewelry made as rich a display as it had when he was interred 13 centuries ago. A jade diadem covered his skull, and chunky jade earrings lay where his ears had been. A jade mask with inlaid emerald eyes covered his face. Inside the mouth was a jade bead, and a long jade necklace hung over a beaded breastplate...
...eloquence of the Crusader preachers. Writes Historian Runciman, describing a sermon of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the most famous of them: "Very soon his audience was under his spell. Men began to cry for Crosses-'Crosses, give us Crosses!' It was not long before all the [cloth] that had been prepared to sew into Crosses was exhausted; and Saint Bernard flung off his own outer garments to be cut up. At sunset he and his helpers were still stitching, as more and more of the faithful pledged themselves to go on the Crusade...