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...luncheon club that exists for the purpose of giving slapstick initiations once a month to current celebrities and notorieties. At Hepburn's initiation he shook hands with former Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey, who wore a mask of Franklin Roosevelt...
From where he sat he could see portraits of Marx and Engels and a pale death mask of Lenin. But the Russian past all seemed very far away now-even the recent past in which he had consolidated his own dictatorship by executing hundreds of old friends and Old Bolsheviks. He was a hard man, worthy of the name of steel. He could feel it in himself. If anyone could come through the great historic grinding in which he now found himself, he could...
...prize honor of the year, much to the joy of the Crimson, was pulled by a Yale man. Early in the training period the battalion was subjected to gas mask drill. Each man was issued a mask and taught how to put it on in drill formation. The command was: By the numbers, gas, 1, 2, 3. Each command was the signal for some action--taking the mask out of its case, putting it over the face, and finally putting...
...corps drilled for an hour on gassing by the numbers and then went through the gas chamber where they proved to themselves the efficiency of a mask in staving off the effects of tear gas by the process of breathing through the mask for a minute or so and then it taking it off for 20 seconds...
...sniffed the gas, all right, and he heard people around him yelling, "Gas, gas," but, unfortunately for him, there was no officer to shout, "By the numbers, gas 1, 2, 3". The Eli was imbued with a strong sense of discipline, and he couldn't see putting on his mask without a formal command. So with a whispered prayer to God, to country, and to Yale he continued to stick it out, like the proverbial lad who stood on the burning dack whence all but he had fled...