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Object of many an urban stare was the rustic figure of Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma sipping gallons of black coffee, chewing soggy cigar butts. He grew pessimistic about getting the nomination for himself but insisted Oklahoma would vote for Roosevelt only "after frost?and frost down our way don't come until after election...
This must be by way of valedictory. The lanterns are swaying in the quadrangles, new wine has been poured into old, salt washed bottles, girls have bought new dresses. Strange shadows of far off greatness move in the Yard among us, and pause to stare at Holworthy 14. Families have come, fiancees have come, the girl from Cotuit last summer has come, sight unseen they have come. There is music, and silence, and darkness, and a great light, and a throb, and a happy laugh. There is confetti and a band, and tall gentlemen in reds, and blues, and even...
...ring up his cash-register. He had samples made, he set silk-mills a spinning with a three hundred dollar check; and presently his window on the avenue flashed forth its stripes of purple, blue, and green. But alas, this rainbow touched no pot of gold. Many paused to stare but few went in to buy. "Today the window is empty of its pride. The necktie menace has been put down...
...every New Year's reception for a half-century, indicates the attraction which the ritual has for the popular mind. Until it is re-instituted, there will be very little in a trip to Washington for John Robinson, except the great dome of the Library of Congress to stare...
...alone with his cobra. Regarded as sacred by most Indians, the cobra must be avoided, not slain. But Prisoner Bhopatkar, locked in his cell, could not avoid this one. Unarmed, neither could he kill it. As the cobra fixed him with its jeweled eyes, he sat crosslegged, giving back stare for stare. For ten minutes neither moved a muscle. Then the warden returned, clubbed the cobra to death. "That was wrong," said St. Gandhi severely. "The cobra's visit was a good omen...