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...sight. (I was steering a westerly course.) I looked up at the mainsail. What a shock! It had turned from white to black. An optical illusion, of course. The sky, too, had turned black. Another glance at the sinking sun, and while I was looking, the bright orange orb turned to green. Then no matter where or how long I looked in other directions, whether I shut my eyes or opened them, I saw nothing but a bright green disk. Of the sails, the boat, the compass or the water I saw nothing...
...according to Mayor Walker, so sick indeed that he has had to go to California. There under the shade of the dated palm he will take his ease and contemplate the stars, wondering whether it wouldn't be advisable to hitch his wagon to another and less tarnished orb...
Half a moon, as the good song suggests, may be light enough for a good many evening activities. But the football game played by the light of the lunar orb would probably not comply with intercollegiate standards enough to warrant recognition as such...
...Vienna Cathedral, ordered a year ago by the Germanic Museum, is now completed and will soon be shipped. This is one of the richest and most decorative pieces of flamboyant Gothic sculpture of the second half of the fifteenth century. The Emperor, in gorgeous vestment, with crown, imperial orb and sceptre, is standing under a vaulted canopy the front of which contains a relief of St. Christopher with the Christ child. Around the Emperor are grouped the emblems of his sovereignty and coats of arms of the Empire, the Hapsburg dynasty. Upper and Nether-Austria, Styria, and Lombardy, together with...
...Viceregal Court. In all but name, the splendors of Imperial Delhi eclipse those of London as the blazing Indian sun outshines the often sickly orb which rises and sets over England. At the durbars of the Viceroy attend Princes whose antiquity of lineage combined with wealth exceeds that of any other class of mortals. As the crown jewels of George V outshine those of other Occidental monarchs, so are they outshone by the trinkets of the Nizam* of Hyderabad, "the richest man on earth," a potentate privately possessed of five million acres of crown lands and tangible stores of gold...