Word: lenina
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...Latvia. The official guide at the hotel informed us that "lunch was at two, excursion at three, and dinner at six." By 7 p.m. we were out to meet another family. Melissa and I linked arms, as much to appear inconspicuous as for reassurance and security, and walked down Lenina Street looking for our first family...
Someone put alcohol in Bernard Marx's blood surrogate while he was still in his bottle, and Bernard turned out a misfit. He took his Lenina to the feelies and to color organ concerts, danced with her to "Bottle songs" ("Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted . . ."), but he objected to sharing her with others. For that he was banished to Iceland. "Mr. Savage" was b --n on an Indian reservation of a real m ----r, and he too fell in love...
...with Lenina, fled from her like St. Cimeon Stylites from Thais. His Fordship Mustapha Mond granted him an old lighthouse where he could live in savagery, but television reporters hunted him out, Lenina returned to torture him and the flesh got him in the end. Early morning reporters found him dangling in his lighthouse. "Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, northeast, east, southeast, south, south-southwest...
...Pamiat Lenina swung away from the bund at Shanghai, slowly churned her steadygoing way up the great river Yangtze. Mme. Borodin left her cabin and stood on the bridge with the Captain...
...representatives in Peking and Shanghai. Soon "demands" were made by the Soviet Government upon the great Northern War Lord Chang Tsolin, theoretically the feudal superior of the Shantung Chang. The two Changs were informed that they must release Mme. Borodin, her couriers, her baggage, and the S. S. Pamiat Lenina. But Mme. Borodin was not released. To rescue her, Russia must send much gold, or many men, offer some great concession, or concoct some really potent threat. "Mrs. Grosberg," Chinese thought, is likely to prove the most valuable hostage of the whole Chinese civil...