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...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...
Many of Richard Wagner's heroes (Siegmund, Siegfried) are huntsmen. Hunter Siegfried begins his career by bringing in a live bear, earns his spurs hunting a 20-foot, papier-mache, steam-spouting dragon, ends up by getting hunted himself and being carried home on his shield like a dead stag...
...closing its jaws, one to shoot steam from its mouth, one to shout its music through a megaphone backstage, an assistant conductor watching for the conductor's beat through a peephole, a prompter speaking the dragon's words from the score. It is still only a papier-mache dragon...
...senses-of a hypothetical pedestrian passing with his head down and his own worries in an interval of about ten seconds. On Fifth Avenue this has led to glamor plus novelty. Most noticeable evidence: a change in manikins from a shiny waxwork sisterhood with open-eyed little smiles to papier-máché, wire mesh or carven effigies of the dangling, mask-faced glamor girl...