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...skylight and crept to the roof edge. Patiently peering at the baby porch a floor below him, fortified with a roof repairman's tools and a bland air of industry in case he was surprised, the hours slipped by. Swaddled thickly the baby slept below. It was dusk, and no picture. The next day Sarno crept out on his roof again. Late in the morning Baby Vera stirred, tossed. The tiny head, free of loving covers, lay exposed. Sarno swiftly exposed his picture plate, scuttled happily down the skylight, "beat" the town on the most difficult picture story...
...weary pageant of a slow, travel-stained procession along a road through the country. Roughly 18 years later the story goes on again. This time it is a humble, yet triumphant continuity of miracles and splendid words; the pictures are those of a group of men talking in the dusk by the shore of a sea or walking together toward a city. At the centre of these pictures is the boy who stood in the temple; the face that was filled that day with exaltation has now become more sorrowful, more wise. For three years, through sandy eastern countries...
Southbound. Leaving Washington, President Coolidge smoked a long cigar. Then he took his after-lunch nap. Passing through Virginia, he discoursed on the Civil War. Entering North Carolina towards dusk, he looked out of the car window at farmers' brush fires. He dined early, on steak (medium), carrots, tea, Roquefort cheese. He smiled at Pullman-waiter T. C. Radcliffe, thanked him, retired to the club car to see Will Rogers in a cinema called A Texas Steer (comedy). Cuban travel scenes and "shots" of Havana were also shown...
...much like the march to Versailles as the sight of those crowds which billow and surge down Boylston Street, filling every square, inch of the lane between Smith Halls and the subway walls? Thousands mill around thousands and the vista as far as eye can reach in November dusk is one of bobbing heads and shoulders...
...Turkish Republic was holding its first census. From the first streak of dawn to the last shadow of dusk all citizens were ordered to remain within their doors; none might venture out unless with an official permit. All day long 50,000 census takers, accompanied by police and soldiers, counted heads, took names, ages, religions, professions, native languages spoken, examined for health and applied simple educational tests, while the suspicious populace, quietly submitting to the inquisition, wondered if all the counting of heads was to assist the taxgatherer in his unwelcome rounds...