Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steadily growing cloud is rising from the university horizon, a cloud of literature, circulars and pamphlets pouring from the university extensions and upstart correspondence schools of what-not, and threatening to shadow the whole sky. The farmhand can learn to play the piccolo in ten lessons, the mayor can learn public accounting by mail. An education dropped through a slit in the door! The universities are hardly of any use now. A few years and they will be cut off from the light altogether...
...these crabbed times of Turkish turmoil Republican uneasiness, and undergraduate suspense we are not unlike that idolatrous generation which seeketh a sign. How much better would it have been for the contemporaries of Noah had they perceived upon the horizon the true character of the little cloud, which, the chronicler states, was as small as a man's hand...
...followed by fair weather with light westerly winds and a rising temperature. Hence we are in a quandary. What shall be the vein of the annual Class Day editorial? Shall it be wet humor or dry humor, shall we indulge in a little mud-slinging or merely raise a cloud of verbal dust? A question which our editorial minds, after three days' holiday, refused to answer. So we put on our raincoats and departed, leaving it to the office boy to decide which of the following editorials to pull from the pigeon hold marked "Good Any Time...
...said that Punch holds up a mirror, it must be added that it is a mirror, it must be added that it is a mirror with some relation to those one finds at the amusement parks. For Mr. Punch does not often busy him self in a cloud of depressing seriousness; while perfectly serious in his purpose, he refuses to say anything seriously. Here is an exemplar of poise such as is not often found. And in his pages we find his thoughts on everything that happened-from the surrender of Heligoland to the subject from the prying...
...newspaper printed. In fact it might have been an Old Testament Sabbath from all accounts, save for the crowds in the streets. Furthermore, the response to an appeal from the Irish Bishops for a popular demand for the treaty has elicited little response, apparently because of the cloud of fear which is over the whole land. Even an Irishman, or at least some of them, seem to know when enough is enough...