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High above the sun blazed down its fiery heat, but the Queen, sitting under her toque in the shade, was unconscious of the torrid atmosphere until the earth shifted and the sun basked in her presence. At this point...
...thought of the spectators, as they scrambled respectfully to their feet. Tennis players, some of them from other nations, stopped their games to wish Her Majesty the customary farewell. Everybody felt disappointed that the Queen was leaving so early. But Queen Alary walked a few steps backwards into the shade and sat down again. She smiled and blushed at the inconvenience she had caused to the King's subjects who, with audible titterings, again sat down...
...United America, waved its way across the Atlantic to stay with the disunited States of Europe. With the rise of the thermometer, vitality sank and with the increase of humidity, ambition faltered. An unnamed U. S. newspaper correspondent with more imagination than energy was locomoted about Europe. From the shade of his conveyance (it might have been from the window of his hotel or, again, a hyper-metropical vision from the U. S.), he lazily and laconically wrote to The New York World "on the general state of everything" in Europe: "Artificial sunlight aids the health of London...
...weep, shade of Arnold, they call him a critic...
...Honolulu, a photograph was wrapped upon a glass tube. Within the tube was an electric light. Without was a photosensitive apparatus. The wrapped tube revolved slowly and the photosensitive apparatus translated light and shade into dots and dashes on a telegraph...