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Arabia was at peace last week. Hard-hitting Ibn Saud, King of the Hejaz, had stopped a brief but bloody revolt. Correspondents hurried down to Dhaba on the Red Sea to see what all the shooting was for. They got there at dusk as the desert heat was lifting. A crowd of little boys in dirty, torn abas were shrilly playing football on the dusty plain. Their football did not bounce. It was the lacerated, eyeless head of Hamad Ibn Ra fada, defeated chieftain of the Bili tribe...
...slipped the looped wires around their necks, dragged them out to a net in the yard. As each fighting cat was tossed into a wagon, neighbors leaning from windows cheered. Twenty-eight cats were captured this way. Only eight remained. The sun went down, another tomcat lost its freedom. Dusk fell, and with it two more tomcats. As darkness crept into the Dornsife house the officers called for lights. The lights had been turned off days before. Smiling sardonically, the Widow Dornsife refused to produce a lamp...
...friendly Senate. From their Anacostia camp tattered jobless veterans marched by thousands to the Capitol. They packed into the Senate galleries. They flopped down in corridors to nap. They swarmed over the wide Capitol steps. They sprawled on the grass. They packed the plaza. They sang and joked. By dusk there were close to 10,000 of them in & around the Capitol. Shortly after 8 p. m. their comrades in the Senate Chamber flashed out the news?...
...latest civic-minded Emery was in Europe last week so she did not see the enthusiastic people milling into the Zoo each night at dusk. She did not hear the ovation which greeted short, stocky Isaac Van Grove when he took the conductor's stand at the opening Aida. Nor did she read his statement: "When I came to Cincinnati this time I felt as though I were coming to a shrine. I could understand the emotion of the Mohammedan who makes once in his lifetime a pilgrimage to Mecca...
...directorate of Reconstruction Finance Corp. for a week-end talk about Relief. House Democrats had spurned the Hoover program, were in fact on the verge of passing their own bill for a big public works bond issue. The President and his R. F. C. conferees sat all day. Dusk melted into night but the discussion ran on. A little breeze riffled papers and reports on the conference table...