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Rumor that a special train with a private car was going to pick up a wedding party at Prides Crossing, Mass, brought idlers to the station of that socialite village north of Boston near dusk one afternoon last week. They wanted to see the throwing of rice and shoes, the shouting of good wishes at newlyweds who could afford a honeymoon in a private car. The train arrived, waited. The sun neared setting. The air cooled. At a few minutes before 8 o'clock an ambulance drove up to the rear platform of the private car. Gawpers...
...Where dusk approaches like a locust-swarm...
...Africa, had been immobilized by some mighty power and transported in their natural surroundings across the Atlantic to the Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals. Passing through the new Roosevelt Memorial visitors entered a vast room of black and grey marble, dimly illuminated from overhead by a light like dusk in the jungle. Around the sides of the hall were 15 reconstructions of animal life. On these shone a light like hot sunshine...
...using her sawtooth appendage to carve grooves in which to lay her eggs. When the larvae hatch from the eggs, they fall to the ground, dig in, attach themselves to a root at which they suck for 17 years. When the proper time arrives, they come out at dusk, climb a tree. In order to get out of the old shell in which it passed its infancy, the insect takes a firm toehold on the bark, arches its back. The shell splits and the cicada slowly works out of it. At this stage the insect is whitish, has red eyes...
First public Yard concert of the year by the Glee Club was pronounced a success last evening as three hundred enthusiastic followers of the annual programs gathered in the dusk round the steps of Widener Library...