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...attained an astonishing civilization which was almost an exact facsimile of that from which they had been marooned in 1851. Miss Smith, an extraordinary old woman, usually drunk, had come to believe that she was herself Queen Victoria. She called her palace Balmoral. Antimacassars covered every cocoa-nut-cloth chairback. On the trees about the premises were graven such verses...
...haughty man of the hour turns his back on the bull, receives his sword and muleta (a brilliant scarlet cloth hung from a short stick) and addresses himself to the president of the fight. He asks permission to commit tauricide and, that received, next dedicates the animal to a portion of the arena, or to a lady, or to a wealthy patron, by tossing his hat into the stand. When the hat comes back, its owner is confident of finding therein some costly gift...
...Moscow, the anniversary was celebrated solemnly, ceremoniously, peacefully, for three whole days. The city was draped in cloth of red. Not a street was there that did not exhibit a picture of Lenin, Karl Marx or Trotzky. Red Army and Red Navy recruits took the Red oath of allegiance to the Red Government. Red troops paraded the streets; the Red proletariat applauded. Red orators spoke thus...
...Sunday. None the less, long queues of people waited to enter the church where Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick was to preach. When these people came out, they talked among themselves of how Dr. Fosdick had said that, sooner than lift a finger to aid another war, men of his cloth would go to Leavenworth...
Moscow, draped in cloth...