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What confused ideas does the name "Lenin" conjure up to the mind of the man in the street! Russian and Bolshevik, of course, and probably fanatic, anarchist, tyrant, genius, as well. Yet how few have any knowledge of the true character of the leader of the Russian Revolution, certainly one of the most remarkable men of the century...
...food expert, says that indigestion has finally been found to be the cause of nearly half of all human illness. But still more interesting, he believes that "eating has a specific social reaction." For example, the actor Charles Kean declared that when he was playing the part of a tyrant he ate pork; when he was playing a murderer, he ate beef, and when he was playing a martyr he ate mutton. The moral is clearly to avoid beef...
Meanwhile Reichswehr and police held every important point in the town. A performance of La Tosca was for bidden at the opera house, it being stated that conspirators intended to use the death of the tyrant scene as a signal for an insurrection. Much hostility toward the police was evinced by the crowds...
There is no tyrant so absolute as an editor within the confines of his paper. His slaves tremble at his glance. One word from him makes or un-makes a nobly formed article. If he's so inclined, there is no end to the whims which become solemn law by his decree. If he is so inclined, and has wisdom, he may make far-reaching innovations. There are thousands of these petty tyrants throughout the country. Readers sojourning in the principality of one, are often totally unaware of what is a capital offence in another-or what, by royal...
...Pike returns with the verdict that Saavedra does suppress the press, that he does incarcerate his political disputants, that, in short, he is a tyrant; but also that none of these things is regarded as indecent in Bolivia, and that most of his victims await, without rancor, their opportunity to return to Bolivia to do unto Senor Saavedra as he did unto them...