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Above an open window in a house near the Kremlin Gate that still bears the name of Trotsky there stretched a large red streamer in the centre of which was a large picture of L. D. Trotsky himself. Matters grew serious when at the open window there appeared the head of Trotsky in the flesh, not to mention the head of his brother-in-law, Leo Borisovitch Kam-ener. Some of the crowd jeered, others cheered. Then something attracted their attention...
That something turned out to be a man on the roof trying his utmost to tear the red streamer down. With a bellow like a bull's the giant Mura-lov, onetime commander of the Moscow garrison and Trotsky's most devoted follower, elbowed his way through the crowd, scaled the side of the house like a human fly, mounted the roof, caught the offender by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the trousers, carried him to the edge of the roof, and dropped him from a safe height to the ground, where, terrified...
There he treasures the collection of Japanese antiquities which is his pride. Above his snug lair floats a long streamer displaying a gigantic carp in black and white. "It is the Japanese symbol of strength and virility," chuckles M. Clemenceau to puzzled visitors...
...Packard Eight. Its wheelbase will be 176 in., its speed 120 miles an hour. The Weyman Body Co. of London and Paris will build a factory at Indianapolis, Ind. Last week at least one newspaper of every large U. S. city carried a full page advertisement, whose streamer headline reads: HOW THE VISION OF ONE MAN revolutionized the trend, of American Automobile Design...
...first issues of the new Post were not without their journalistic faux pas; for example, a streamer headline over a sport page; ROCKEFELLER SPENDS VACATION ON FLORIDA LINKS?OTHER LIVE SPORT NEWS...