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...truck trailer was pulled up in front of the First State Bank for a speakers' platform. There were speeches and telegrams predicting that he would one day be governor. Mrs. G. E. Ramsey, who taught him grammar, said: "Jim, I'm wearing red shoes and a red flower and two coats of lipstick and my earbobs...
...cliche "Eye of God" in one corner and painted a strangely feminine, death-rigid Christ crucified in a Haitian street. Castera Bazile, the only one of the Haitian muralists with a monumental sense of figure composition, used a similar street scene for his Ascension, made his angels look like flower petals in a whirlwind...
...roads, huts or houses are decorated with festoons of palm and mango leaves. As he passes through wayside villages at dawn, groups of scantily clad, emaciated people shout: "The God who is distributing land has come!" Or, calling him the "son of Gandhi," they touch his feet, offer him flower garlands and fruit, beat drums, and blow bugles...
...were sent off to the sunny Crimea. At West Lake, the Chinese Stakhanovites were lodged in villas that once belonged to wealthy merchants. "These houses," reported one Chinese newspaper, "have stained-glass windows, beds with springs, and silk quilts, tiled bathrooms with flush toilets, facilities for chess and pingpong, flower-bedecked gardens, radios and books. There is always, too, a Thermos bottle on the table filled with boiled water. Such things were never before within reach of workers in China...
Speak Civilly to Blondes. In the mazes of such quandaries, Wodehouse characters frequently wander down mysterious passages of prose: "Like so many young doctors with agreeable manners and frank blue eyes, Ambrose Gussett continued to be an iodoform-scented butterfly flitting from flower to flower but never resting on any individual bloom long enough to run the risk of having to sign on the dotted line." But in the end they generally find their way out, bearing on their lips a word of Wodehouse wisdom...