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Refuge. The Parnikovs, a couple of papier-mâché old guard aristocrats, took her in. They turned against her when she visited their daughter Lilian, a long-nosed, ugly, attractive whore who lived with a killer for the secret police. "He is dreadful," said the old people. "He wears a shamelessly new leather coat, lives in scandalous plenty-she told me they even had meat and wine and sugar, and he shoots people by the dozen. They have no home life...
...have had enough of diplomatic appeasement and apologies for it, enough of "Little Steel formulas" made of papier-mâché, enough of "States' Rights" shouted from astride pork barrels. . . . We are fed up with weak-kneed Administrations, Congresses, political parties (both of them). Give us even so much as one individual in all those places who will follow the policy of frankness and confidence, and he can have anything America can give. Remember that all political power still is delegated by the people. And they take away. The people know exactly what they want...
...shipments to firms and agents in Latin America, these firms have switched to U.S. goods, frequently have relabeled them "Made in Germany." Many a firm peddled as much propaganda as merchandise. Smart Latin Americans, comparing U.S. anti-Axis professions with U.S. commercial practice, thought Good Neighborliness was funny: a papier-mâché hand in a velvet glove...
...hundred and twenty-five delegates slept in the city jail. Democrats carried a big banner saying ROOSEVELT AGAIN, AGAIN AND AGAIN. Liberal-Independents had as their official emblem a giraffe, "because it sticks its neck out." At the height of the Republican convention, a huge papier-mâché-headed elephant opened up and out tumbled a bevy of college girls...
...crest of Chungking hill-where one bloody day last May 200 Chinese were bombed to death because they thought they would be safe from air attack if they hid under trees and bushes -a gay new game was being played last week. It was called "Get the Traitors." Five papier-mâché puppet heads were arranged on the ground. Each represented a Chinese who had sold out to the Japanese. Several paces away laughing Chungking citizens lined up for chances, at 5? a throw, to try to ring the heads with evergreen wreaths. Whoever succeeded in "crowning...