Word: heathens
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...missionary. Sometimes you have to wrestle for a man's political soul for hours and hours. Sometimes you can win him in a trice with a ponderous period. And tiresome though it is to turn out ponderous periods, life is often brightened by the gorgeous retorts of the heathen. For example, this is the answer one Hooverizer got when he approached an insurgent South Dakota editor: "I am for Hoover just about as far as you can throw our party elephant by the pin feathers with your arm broken in four places...
Enough to set hairs a-standing on pious Mohammedan heads would be a proposal to cover the broad, flat floors of mosques with hateful, heathen pews...
Pews would prevent squatting in the traditional attitude of prayer. Pews would obstruct reverent foreheads from bending down to touch the floor of the House of Allah. Pews would be an awful desecration -as awful as though heathen Christians should not don slippers before entering a mosque, and thus pollute the floor...
...stranger or a heathen wandered into Convention Hall, he might well have been confused as well as humbled by the scene which confronted him. Who, he might have asked, among all these dignitaries, is most worthy to be watched? What delegate is notable enough to justify rigorous attention? There would, of course, have been no way to decide this for the stranger. But since it would obviously be impossible for him to follow every move of the Conference, even if he desired to do so, one man he could select who would probably be near the centre of activity...
...tortured until they told the whereabouts of valuables and gold. Dirty thumbs with ragged nails gouged out the eyes of stubborn misers or those who really had no gold. Finally surviving citizens of Leiyang were herded and penned into buildings which were lighted and burned amid awful outcries. The heathen, glutted to repletion, spread their grins and carried off their loot. Supplementary despatches confirmed that those burned & butchered numbered approximately...