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...Social Revolutionary Party--"morally one of the purest actions imaginable." It was an almost inevitable step for his peasant background combined with an extensive (if largely self-administered) education to give him an acute sense of the misery of the people. He was, in his own words, "a mongrel of mongrels," and often remonstrated to Lenin and Trosky, "It is I who am the village laborer...
From the Jails? No issue on the ballot had done more to arouse Baltimoreans. The campaign had boiled for months. At a public hearing, the anti-vivisectionists were challenged to choose between the healthy, happy child (once a blue baby) who was present and a mongrel stray...
...paid for seven months, were in possession of Yarkand, and it took Paxton's smoothest Chinese to talk his party's way through. Paxton dismissed the truck and the jeeps, and hired ten caravan men with 33 horses and a handful of camels and donkeys. A white mongrel dog named It (Turki dialect for dog) decided to join the caravan for pot luck...
...University a large sum of money for a new building, provided only that it be in Turkish style. "It's the only kind of architecture," he explained, "you haven't got." He wasn't far from wrong. And if Lamont Library is one of the extremes of Harvard's mongrel collection, the Germanic Museum certainly qualifies for the other. The red-roofed building, adorned with Teutonic eagles and lions and a quotation from Schiller, sits on the corner of Kirkland Street and Divinity Avenue like a misplaced Valkyrie grown slightly stout...
...trouble putting over civil rights as his good friend Harry Truman, who already had tapped McMath as the kind of progressive leader the South needs. The legislature adjourned after blocking McMath's anti-lynch, anti-poll tax program. To rebel cries that McMath was trying to produce a "mongrel" race, the governor replied wearily: "I thought we had gotten above that sort of thing...