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Powdery snowflakes whispered down through the dusk. The wind drowsed. Out of a cavernous shed on a field in Belleville, Ill., a great grey shape slid out of lurking and moved off through the gathering night, purring a basso profundo that swelled to a dull roar as a white eye and a red in the creature's belly were seen to rise from the earth, twinkle slowly higher and disappear...
Yesterday, just at dusk, the Sophomore class of 1863 assembled with proper decorum, to perform the funeral obsequies of the football...
...some the sound of popping corks is music of the sweetest; others fancy the tones of their own voice as reverberated by the tiled walls of a bathroom; to a man who truly loves his work even the angry, mosquito-like whine of an alarm-clock in the raw dusk of a winter morning may be welcome. But partisans of these noises generally realize that friends might be seriously offended if forced to share their taste, particularly if the friends desired at the moment only to sleep. Using such instances as parallels, certain tenants of apartment houses on Park Avenue...
...bleak but fertile plains of Manitoba at dawn and dusk. Over them a short but beamy shag-pate, Caleb Gare, walking as though bent against a wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin, a wife and children dulled and spavined by the cruel toil he holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie...
Lord Leverhulme (who won his elevation by the able manufacture of a red soap) recently died (TIME, May 18, BUSINESS) and all his famous pictures were locked up in the dusk of a London house to to await disposal. English collectors fingured their cheque books. Mitchell Kennerley, Director of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, sailed for London...