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After the prayer, roll call. Then Illinois got as far as the aisle. Mr. Vare did not even attempt to rise. By prearrangement Senator Norris, the parliamentary philosopher, voiced the objections of Insurgents and Democrats. The suspects "stood aside." In a perfunctory bark, Vice President Dawes declared the Seventieth Senate adjourned...
...their geography, etched Spencerian parabolas into their copy books, played "duck on a rock" at recess, spelled out the stories in McGuffey's; then they walked home on dusty roads, swinging their book straps and talking to each other, stopping to cut their initials into fence rails or the bark of a tree. The songs they sang, the books they read, the things they learned made them make the U. S. into whatever...
...Brock, superintendent of the Houston public park department. Brock states, "It is impossible to convey with words an adequate idea of the perfection of the work of Rodriquez. It is the coloring which makes his reproductions truly remarkable. He uses no forms, but fashions every piece of bark, and makes every weather check by hand before the surface cement has hardened. His color process is secret...
...consist of a stone block bearing two bas-reliefs of Haughton, will take place on November 19, the day of the Yale football game. One of the bronze figures will show the famous mentor in a familiar pose, with one knee on the ground and a megaphone poised to bark out some command on the gridiron; the other will depict him at his coaching specialty, punting...
...time of night when watchdogs bark at a thought, a dream, waking farmers to a remembrance of grief, there winds through Manhattan the sound of boat horns. To those who grope for sleep in the darkness before dawn, they are hounds baying a gigantic sorrow, whining the threat of a remote doom. In the morning, sharp black noses sniff a zigzag scent across the harbor down the Hudson; the horns make cheerful yappings that in the dark, were the voices of a nightmare...