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...turgid periods of Das Kapital and in the reverent thoughts of all right-minded Communists. That other god of the Soviet Olympus, Nikolai Lenin, remains visible in Moscow where science has kept the Russian Dictator's corpse intact for eleven years. Last week the Lenin tomb was closed to the public while Soviet workers busily installed air-conditioning equipment with a view to preserving the sacred remains for at least a century more...
Typical Chanese maxim: "Theory, like mist on eyeglasses, obscures fact." Good shot: the Negro retainer (Stepin Fetchit) losing his flashlight in a tomb which he considers to be a convention hall for "hants...
...Death. In this fantastic register of disaster, a Pathan raid failed to materialize at once only because the earthquake had shaken their hill villages too. Sir Alexander asked and got the power to declare martial law, inasmuch as all the police were dead. Then he sealed Quetta like a tomb, for fear of cholera. Only soldiers prowled through the stinking city...
...Greek and Roman priests, in charge of holy spots whence their Churches derive substantial revenue. It was bad enough, wrote Dr. Morrison, that after 20 centuries and repeated destructive battles in Palestine a tourist should be expected to believe in the continued, known existence of Christ's tomb, the manger in which he was laid at Bethlehem and the very hillside on which the shepherds slept that night. But it was downright "fantastic" to be told by a Franciscan in "Mary's house" that "the Virgin stood at this pillar, and Gabriel at that pillar when he announced...
...maid. Her loyalty did not prevent her marrying later and becoming the mother of ten. When Johnson and Boswell made their tour of the Hebrides they visited her, and she and the old lexicographer hit it off from the first. His typical tribute to her was inscribed on her tomb: "A name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour. She is a woman of middle stature, soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence." Safe back in France after his fiasco, Prince Charlie became a young-man-about-Paris. Author Mackenzie says...