Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roared Boss Tom Pendergast, jabbing the air with his mighty forefinger: "I have never done a thing in my life except support Democratic officials to the best of my ability. I have not received that kind of consideration from Governor Stark. ... If his conscience is clear, I know mine is. I now say let the river take its course...
...very powerful radio transmitter of the Papal State went on the air in German with a broadcast heard all over Greater Germany and taken by most listeners to be a condemnation of Cardinal Innitzer for having yielded to force, combined with an injunction to Catholics that in the plebiscite they should vote according to their consciences rather than Innitzer. An official Vatican translation of this broadcast into Italian was supplied to journalists by Papal dignitaries...
...these pictures brought yelps of pleasure from critics who have long complained that much U. S. painting shows the imaginative audacity of a dish rag. One of them. Procession of Small Beings, was close to a Klee fantasy except for its peculiarly vernal, blues and grays and its air of non-human humor. More evocative than Klee paintings, many Maclver paintings had to be looked at just as long before her nifty effects of specific atmosphere and illumination came through. Examples...
Suddenly a squall struck the party. Rare air, steeps, ice are hazards climbers expect to overcome, but blizzards and high wind are hazards they run away from. Leader Joe Leuthold at once gave the order to descend. The wind was so sharp the Mazamas had to back down the draw. Ice crusted their goggles; sleet froze on their faces and clothes. After the party had reached the base of the chute, they broke strings, reassembled, continued the descent. Some of them were not dressed warmly enough for the extreme cold...
...rented tent ($250 a week), announced his first service in it for last week, declared that his congregation would have a wooden tabernacle within a few months. To Pastor Mclntire's tent next night came more than 900 people. There, warmed against the sharp spring air by gas heaters, and warmed against a world weak in faith by the smiling enthusiasm of their pastor, they heard him say: "God practically dropped this tent on us out of the sky. Isn't it wonderful? I never saw a tent that looked so pretty. . . . All my life...