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...that brings only happy sounds; the voice of the brook or the off-key whistle of a farm boy. It is that indefinable time of day or night which poets and song writers have tried to limit by a phrase without success. They call it gloaming, or twilight, or dusk and straightway destroy the illusion. It is none of these, but only ten minutes past sunset in New Hampshire and it must be heard and seen and felt, not rhymed and written...
...million Russians marched across the Red Square in a solid, seemingly endless phalanx more than 100 ft. wide. At sight of Dictator Stalin, who wore a Red Army cap and bluish grey "semimilitary jacket" (said Moscow papers), each new group of workers burst into "spontaneous cheers." Just at dusk the parade's tail was brought up by a Soviet dirigible which had flown during the day from Leningrad to Moscow...
...night, all morning and all afternoon Howard Edwards continued to walk and ride. As soon as he grew used to walking he was given a ride; as soon as he made himself comfortable in the chair he was pulled to his feet. As dusk fell he was put to bed, shaken and bothered into wakefulness. Long after midnight Dr. Snavely decided that he had worked off the effect of the veronal, might sleep without danger of never waking. But that night, again, Howard Edwards could not sleep well...
...Just at dusk last week, long snakelike strings of firecrackers pip-popped from the trees in the Retiro, Madrid's sprawling city park. Gaping crowds spread over the lawns to watch pinwheels swoosh round, rockets sizzle high into the sky. It was the eve of the first birthday of Spain's Republic, the anniversary of the day Alfonso XIII fled from his country. Airplanes dropped 50,000 little red, yellow and purple parachutes; there were gala football matches and bullfights. Pink with pleasure, tousle-haired President Niceto Alcala Zamora reviewed 10,000 troops in the Castellana avenue, presided...
Cutting through the icy rain and sleet to Newell boathouse in the dusk yesterday afternoon the University 150-pound crews completed their last practice before the crews are put into final shape for the race with Kent on April...