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Across the hilly shoulders of Charleston, W. Va. was draped a grey shawl of early morning mist. From his Chesapeake & Ohio special President Hoover crossed to a stadium near the station. There a sleepy-eyed crowd, many school children, heard him tell how Charleston's chemical industry had waxed fat and strong behind the protecting bulwark of the Republican tariff. A lusty cheer rolled out when the President recalled that he, too, had once worked with pick & shovel in a mine...
...Varsity squad was run through a stiff 20-minute scrimmage against Brown plays put on by the Seconds yesterday. A long drill on fundamentals won followed by another hard session on pass defense, and as a light mist hung over the field, the white ball was brought out at the end of the practice to finish off with a long signal drill...
...grey mist hung close to the grey, metallic Thames. It was early in the morning and the ships that came from Virginia and the East lay at anchor, silent and calm. Out of the murky water stood the colorless walls and turrets of the Tower of London; and, on the big White Tower, the flag of the Stuarts, wet and heavy, slapped against its pole as the giddy wind of a London fog caught it and let it fall...
...fine plump red Scotch grouse shipped by express from Balmoral Castle, but many another grouse-loving Briton ate mutton or went hungry. On the morning of the Twelfth-opening date of the Scottish grouse season-a violent thunderstorm swept over the moors, leaving boggy ground and a heavy mist in its wake. Sportsmen standing ankle-deep in the sticky peat of shooting butts had no sooner begun popping at dimly seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled an expert: "The worst morning of the Twelfth...
When day broke over the Wabash. the Dixie Bee bristled with guardsmen's machine guns. The pickets had melted away like mist. The mine ceased operation temporarily while its owners sought permanent protecting injunctions...