Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legion of Honor, a Commander of the Military Order of Christ (Portuga), an Officer of Osmania (Turkey), a Commander of the Crown of Rumania. He belongs to the American Legion, the U. S. Naval Institute, the U. S. Army Ordnance Association, Washington's Metropolitan Club and the St. Cloud Country Club. As a U. S. citizen he still considers himself a Republican. But the most important fact of all about M. Benet is that he is vice president and managing director of the armament firm of Hotchkiss which turns out one of the world's best known machine...
...best and the Senate had done its best but the final writing of the Revenue Act of 1934 devolved last week upon ten elderly men gathered out of public sight around a large mahogany table in the gaudy room of the Senate District of Columbia Committee. There amid a cloud of cigar smoke five Senators and five Representatives, conferees for their respective chambers, tackled the serious business of just how far down into the pockets of 125,000,000 inhabitants of the U. S. the Government should thrust its hand during the next fiscal year...
...Austin, Vermont Republican, in command. Called to the witness stand was big, jovial, double-chinned First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes who testified that he had been "proud" of the service under private contractors, that cancellation had been actively pushed by lobbyists who "came in hosts, like a cloud of grasshoppers." Astute questioning by Senator Austin forced him to admit that at a meeting with airmail contractors last autumn-a meeting not unlike the "spoils conferences" which cost them their contracts-he had sought their "advice and consent" before cutting appropriations under a reduced budget. It was, he thought...
...glory, and were not the board walks taken up? And did not the spring zephyrs ruffle delightfully the surface of the Charles and the dresses of the doxies along its banks? But no more could these aphrodisiacs of spring enliven him, for now they aroused within him a palling cloud of defensive inactivity, which made the light breeze seem vicious, the caressing sunlight tropical, and even the grass like brittle spicules of rock...
...every distiller knows, all Scotch whiskey is blended. So is Scots dialect. A blend not only of pungent Scots dialect and plain English but of symphony and satire, low comedy and drama that sometimes aspires to the tragic, Cloud Howe is a malty, fairly intoxicating brew. Author ''Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (J. Leslie Mitchell, British historian and archeologist) has already written one book about his heroine (Sunset Song), will write one more, but Cloud Howe stands sturdily enough alone...