Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During these several years the Vagabond has learned to expect most anything to happen in his Tower. But this was a bit too much...
Winners in the camera class were Frederick M. Miller '37 with his enlargement "Leaves", Gabriel S. Welsman '36 for "The Tower", while honorable mention went to Weisman and to Spencer B. Fulweiler...
...near midnight, and the Vagabond climbed his old Tower and this time by some queer premonition drew the ladder after him. The old woman had left a fire to welcome the fellow; the candies had burned their life away. Things were different tonight; as if some ominous cloud had set about the Tower. The moon shone into the chamber in a doubtful, suspicious manner. All kinds of weird shapes quivered on the wall. And now there struck a deep-booming, yawning bell. Twelve o'clock...
...Vagabond lay in his four-poster trying to rationalize himself to sleep. But no. No sooner had the iron tongues silenced and a stillness, of death ran over the Tower than a shuffling noise, like the unsteady steps of an old man, came from the narrow corridor. The door groaned on its hinges and: "Knowest thou the mystery of the moon...
...Vagabond rolled over and was soon asleep. But this morning he has not forgotten his visitor, and will leave his Tower at ten to hear about the "Origin and Surface Features of the Moon...