Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgan connection as natural complements. They could see the U. S. well served by an understanding of Mexican conditions that has been found serviceable by J. P. Morgan & Co. They could remember the thoroughness and despatch with which Mr. Morrow, at President Coolidge's request, investigated the Air Service rumpus kicked up by Col. William A. Mitchell, U. S. A., in 1925; how, as chairman of the President's Aircraft Board, Mr. Morrow mapped out the Government air program now going forward...
...argument and had then gone on to defend his claims: instead he has nicely side stepped any discussion of whether or not too many people are seeking higher education and has taken a slightly hazy attitude which, summarized, appears to say that he either does not choose to air his opinion or he is, for the sake of a foundation, jumping at a conclusion which he is not at all sure to be justified...
...artists, or those who aspire to become artists. But it is too well made up to qualify as merely a fleeting pamphlet. It may or may not sustain the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, but its first issue, by the solidity of its appearance and its finished air, gives promise of a hardy line of successors...
...conscious sorrow. When the brass horns shouted, she flapped the floor with a map of Africa, her right ear. For violins and cellos, ehe rolled her small bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone's. In wet clothes and a panic the minstrels scurried off. Squirrels. On the roof of a house in Canandaigua, N. Y., there stood a fat squirrel who looked like "Babe" Ruth. On the limb...
...that is the highest excellence of Miss Gather's writing, her mastery of intangibles. Just as the maturity of her mind has led her, in character-drawing, beyond the emotions to a spiritual emphasis, soi the maturity of her senses has brought her to dwell upon qualities of air, shadow and faint fragrance in her objective scenes. When she paints a mesa, she remembers the cloud mesa above it. Two bronzed runners passing over some sand dunes remind her of "the shadows that eagles cast in their strong, unhurried flight...