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...ushers will be: W. E. Soule '27 head usher, E. B. Jackson '28 assistant, W. M. Bump '28, E. O'Gale '27, C. S. M. Grayson '27, J. D. Howe '28, R. B. Hocking '28, J. H. Harwood Jr., '27, Sargent Kennedy '28, J. C. Rueter '28, R. A. Magowan '27, E. D. Pratt '27, C. G. Raymond '27, H. Hare Jr., '27, O. E. Shattuck '27, Alexander Doneld '27, O. R. Rice E.T.S...
...decks; flapped their cold arms against their bodies, like turkeys trying to fly to a shed roof; dared not pull off their mittens to blow their noses. There was wind and snow. Men hunched up their shoulders and pulled their necks into sweater collars. Like horses miserable in a gale, they turned their backs to the blowing...
...second and less joyous climax comes a little later, at the end of a long lay's travel by camel in the icy gale of the desert plateau, when Jayne, Mr. Warner's companion "slid from his kneeling camel and fell fiat. He could not walk a step. I stretched him on the snow with his back to the blaze and took off his fur boots to find both feet frozen stiff," What this meant, in the midst of the howling desert, at that time of the year, with little food and less fuel and no medical attention is hard...
...midnight rain came softly pattering like children's footsteps. The barometer was 28.84. At 1 a.m. the wind blew 65 miles an hour. The barometer was 28.00. At 5:40 a.m. a screaming, slashing demoniacal 130-mile gale raged wilfully, lustily, triumphantly. The barometer was 27.75 (lowest ever recorded in the U. S.). Pelicans, gulls, petrels, royal terns swept in helplessly, crazily, were dashed against walls into broken lumps. The waters of the ocean on one side and of the Bay of Biscayne on the other swept over Bayshore Drive, met. People drowned like trapped puppies to the frivolous...
Both principals are touring the state on the stump. Governor Elaine is assisted by an all-star cast including "Young Bob" LaFollette, Novelist Zona Gale†, and Mrs. Elaine. In Milwaukee, where betting is as essential as beer, the odds are 5 to 4 in favor of Mr. Elaine...