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“Zinoviev looks like a musician.”
“This is Russian propaganda----”
“This is the most perfect anti-Bolshevik propaganda,----”
“These are fine advertisements for the Bolsheviks--I’m one.”
“Lenin is not for sale, she made him to decorate her London studio.”
“I believe they look worse than she made them.”
“How did she ever escape alive from such awful looking men?”
“We have seen some of the men. These busts look just like them.”
“That’s fine of Trotzky!”
“They don’t look like bomb-throwers.”
“Lenin has a benevolent expression----”
“Trotzky looks like the devil.”
“Lenin is positively awful to look at.”
“Who is Mrs. Sheridan? The name seems familiar.”
“Is she a Russian?”
“Is she Jewess?”
“She is a wonder----”
“How tall is she?”
“Is she pretty?”
“She is a Bolshevik.”
“Is she a Bolshevik?”
“I bet she hates the Russians, she made them so ugly.”
“Did she study with Rodin?”
“Is she light or dark?”
“_That_ can’t be HER!”
“Is she from Chicago?”
“I’m glad she’s English.”
“I’m proud she has American blood in her veins.”
“So glad a woman, and not a man, did this wonderful work.”
“That’s Winston Churchill----What a contrast to the Russians.”
“That is what I call a good face.”
“He is the author of ‘Inside the Cup.’”
“Lady Randolph Churchill is his wife.”
“Shane Leslie is Irish.”
“He is the great English actor.”
“He is the man who was stood up and shot.”
“He looks sad because he is thinking of poor Ireland.”
“Who is Mademoiselle X?”
“Is she a nun?”
“Is her face china?”
“Is her face wax?”
“How did she get the face inside the bronze?”
“It is beautiful.”
“It is horrid.”
“She was a Russian spy.”
“She was a French war nurse.”
“I have read the book about her.”
“There was a play about her, I saw it.”
“She is Mrs. Sheridan’s sister.”
“‘John’ is Mrs. Sheridan’s baby. She sat up and modelled it in bed.”
“He is Shane Leslies’ baby.”
“It is a Russian baby.”
“That is Asquith. It was through his influence that Mrs. Sheridan got
in and out of Russia with safety.”
“Where is the Exhibition?” (Question asked by a lady after looking at
the things for half an hour.)
“I suppose she sold the mask for less because it was broken--I mean
that its head is not all there.”
“They all have souls--that are almost living.”
“This Hall looks like a funeral parlor.”
“If I had the money I would buy them all, so they could not be taken
out of America.”
“I do work just like that.”
“It’s simply wonderful.”
“A High-school girl can do it.”
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1921.
I lunched with Travers Jerome, Senior, it was the first time I had
met him. He talks well and every now and then he says things so like
Winston, and in the sort of way Winston says them, that I realize the
strength of the Jerome blood in us.
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