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...open and the price of cotton jumped $1 a bale. The New York Stock Exchange likewise continued to function, although the ticker fell eleven minutes behind sales. The stock of the Baltimore & Ohio-the gold clause of whose bonds had been specifically invalidated by the decision-soared from a forenoon price of 10 to 15. Other railroad stocks made similar gains; the market seethed...
...apron rolled a pushcart filled with gunny sacks up to the loading platform of a Rubel plant in the Bay Ridge district of Brooklyn. He pushed away an inquisitive child who poked among his sacks, strolled across the street to some tennis courts, lolled on the grass all the forenoon. Later a nattily dressed character sauntered into the neighborhood, obligingly tossed back a ball that had bounced across the tennis court fence. A third character drove up in a huckster's wagon and, waiting for the noon ice delivery, comforted his horse by feeding him first water, then hay. Another...
...first college seems wonderful, in spite of the grimy furnace room he inhabits, the scarecrow clothes he has to wear, the scanty food and few friends. Gradually his high idealism is undermined and he begins to see college as a picture of an unjust and meaningless world outside. "Forenoon" McClintock, a rapscallion fellow-roomer in Vridar's boarding house, helps to complete his disillusioning education. "Forenoon," a devil with the women, is always after Vridar to join him in his forays. But Vridar considers himself engaged to easy-going Neloa Doole at home. Besides, when he gets near...
From time to time during the night and the next forenoon Mrs. Morrow heard other excerpts from messages which reached Pan American nearly every 15 minutes...
...party seems to have started in Alling's room on December 29, 1676, when Onosephoeus Stanley, presumably a friend but no in Harvard, "came in to his chamber, sometime in the forenoon and so continued there until 3 or 4 or ye clock in ye afternoon. During which time...they had cider fetch(ed) in by ...Ailing... as he judgeth in all about 3 qts. for which they paid 2d a quart." Barnard, the other Freshman, stopped in to see Alling and "found they had some rum, which they had been drinking of." Another pint was soon required and sent...