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Included in the herbarium are some 15,000 different species of this rare flower, representing all the colors of the rainbow; some with leaves, others without; and some that grow and blossom underground. A majority of the flowers grew on rocks and in trees, but there are some non-wild and common orchids of the type worn in this country...
...underground" Communist convention of 1922 (Gitlow, chairman), convened in deep woods near the village of Bridgman, Mich., with night sessions by torchlight to ape Old Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...
This activity all along the earth's restless quake zone, and Istanbul Observatory's announcement that the Turkish epicentre was 16 miles underground, led earthquake experts to warn that there would probably be further shocks, perhaps for as long as six months. There are many faults under Turkey, and seismologists predicted it would take some time for a new subterranean balance to be achieved...
...Analysis of the bundle of substitutes that is the snake eye shows that the snakes must have once spent a long period underground, during which they lost their legs, ears, some of the bones of the skull, and almost lost their eyes. The eyes degenerated nearly as completely as have those of the blind fishes which live in lightless caves...
...real dauger lies elsewhere, that from the professional agitators; so far we have only abotted them. For the "isms" are symptomatic of fear and unrest, and we have given them the very atmosphere of persecution and hysteria on which they thrive, driving them underground where they will be hardest to destroy. The essence of democracy is clear thinking and tolerance. We take ourselves too seriously. A country with a sense of humour need fear no Revolution. Hugh Barbour...