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...Otto ever gets a chance to walk into his museum, he will be able to see art works dating from an Egyptian 1900 B. C. tomb to paintings of the 18th Century Dutch School. He will be able to boast of his collections of Dürer, Rembrandt, Holbein, Rubens, Velasquez, and the world's finest Breughels. He may point to his Raphael Madonna as one of the world's very best. In one of his armor rooms, the finest save for Madrid's, he will see ancient Turkish bridles and reins studded with emeralds the size...
Behold the stomach: crammed from every dish, The tomb of boiled and roast and flesh and fish, Where bile and wind, and phlegm and acid jar, And all the man is one intestine...
Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg: My late departed father always recognized Adolf Hitler as his immediate successor. . . . Thus there comes to you, O German people, from the Field Marshal's tower in the Tannenberg Monument [tomb of von Hindenburg] this call: "Rally around and stand united behind Germany's Leader! Let all the world know that an indissoluble tie firmly unites the German people...
...prophecy of Simeon; 2) the flight into Egypt; 3) the search for Jesus in the Temple; 4) the meeting with Him on His way to Calvary; 5) the Crucifixion; 6) the reception of His body; 7) the closing of His tomb...
...delegates could read lips, and none could do so from a distance. In packed, tomb-still conference rooms delegates addressed each other with their hands, arms, heads.* Messages of greeting from President Roosevelt and Governor Lehman were spoken for the audience (hearers), wigwagged for the "optience" (seers). Senator Copeland and Mayor LaGuardia had the novel experience of addressing a crowd which neither heard nor heeded them but kept its eyes glued on a man who gave a running interpretation in manual alphabet-sign language...