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...Seattle 500 University of Washington students clamorously piled wreaths fashioned from green editions of Publisher William Randolph Hearst's PostIntelligencer on the tomb of a future Unknown Soldier, heard a student impersonating J. Pierpont Morgan gloat: "We made money out of the last war. We'll make money out of the next...
...surface a giant clamshell crane, dynamite, a steam shovel, squads of digging miners, burrowed from four different angles on the thin chance that the trapped men might still live. A pipe was forced into the mine tomb and, six days after the cave-in, Dr. Robertson's voice cried faintly, "Hello. We are all right." All, however, were suffering from shock, starvation, exposure. Brandy, chocolate, soup, Bi-so-dol, oilskins, flashlights and candles were dropped down the 5-in. pipe. Then a new menace appeared when water began flooding the wrecked mine. With freedom or drowning a matter...
Communists do not believe in heaven but they have their saints. John Reed, dead at 33, buried by the Kremlin wall close to the tomb of Russia's god, is already canonized. To such Harvard classmates as Red-fearing Hamilton Fish Jr., Reed was a traitor to his class. But even within the revolutionary sect his sainthood is not unanimously acknowledged. Upton Sinclair called him "the playboy of the social revolution." To sympathetic Biographer Granville Hicks. Reed's life is an ennobling example of how revolutionaries are made. Unbiased readers of John Reed will feel that Sinclair...
...more completely to the magic power of this fantasy than the Germans. ... We had been dragged into the War, for whose outbreak we were exactly as guiltless, or as guilty, as other peoples. . . . That peace which was intended to be the final stone laid on the cover of the Tomb of War developed into dragons' seed for new struggles...
...example of late 13th century work, and sheds interesting light on the comparison of Spanish and French treatment of secular subjects. Although displaying most of the medieval tendencies toward identification, a trace of realism is shown in the closed eyes of the effigy, indicating death. The majority of French tomb figures are modelled with open eyes...