Word: sunsetting
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...sunset of an old administration is generally a strange, distorted hour. Shadows are longest then and the last red glimmer of official prestige is at its richest. Would the President-Elect eclipse the outgoing President? Probably not, for Mr. Hoover is ever cautious. He will sequester himself in his S street home, strive to cast no shadows at all. ¶Mr. Hoover and his party skipped all over southern Florida last week. Bad weather drove him back from his west coast tarpon fishing. He inspected the Okeechobee flood area, saw tent colonies, praised sugar cane and truck growing...
...Africa by its Carlisle-Clark African expedition. The lions will be posed at the edge of a thicket near one of the great granite boulders that stick up out of the African plains. In the distance will be herds of game (painted on a back drop). It will be sunset, the lions wakening up, stretching themselves. One lioness, with a few bristles on her Irishman's long upper lip, will be on her feet, ready to hunt...
Like most city-builders, they were shortsighted who built up Manhattan Island. The high, rocky, sunset edge of the island has been allowed to fall into the hands of cheap-johnny apartment builders and tenants. It was a natural development, however, because, like the swampy eastern edge of the island, the upper bank of the Hudson was less accessible than the island's spine. Also, because the Hudson's bank is the island's natural dock and shipping side. Wharves, warehouses and railroad tracks thrived there and stretched up the island before society or even social convenience...
Touch football, with its indeterminate costuming and its sunset lighting, has come again to Harvard. The Harvard Athletic Association may be gilding the lily to form a league, for when one has a league one has regular teams; and when one has teams one has percentages, and when one has percentages, one has championships. After that it is but a short step to the intercollegiate contest in touch football, which first reared its irregular-shaped head last year. Harvard's defeat of Brown at that time came as tidbit for those who prefer the deft to the desperate in sport...
...rules. Company officers, forming the Committee on Nomenclature, methodically assign prefixes, thus: Mt., or Mountain for observation cars containing sections; Saint or Mac for cars with twelve sections, one drawing room; Silver for the California Limited of the Santa Fe; Great for the Great Northern Oriental Limited; Sunset for Sunset Limited of the Southern Pacific...