Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vicissitudes of life have not changed the Vagabond's silent enjoyment in the little things in life. Starlight, cool freshly laundered sheets, a patch of cloud, an ember glowing in the night, a dish heaped high with spaghetti bologiese and the light on the faces of little children, give him a twinge of sweet pain as if he had reawakened some memory of the days when his immortal soul strayed through regions bathed in endless beauty on the journey from the outer spheres. The Vagabond is old in love and the world has taught him to keep...
...volumes tell the story of the rivalry between his grandson, Niou, and his reputed son, Kaoru. Occidental readers may be disappointed in the inconclusive end-"the story fades out like a Chinese landscape-roll. The Bridge of Dreams leads nowhere-breaks off like the tattered edge of a cloud." But there is no doubt, says Translator Waley. that Lady Murasaki wrote it like that: The Tale of Genji is finished...
Other volumes (in order) : The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers, The Lady of the Boat (TIME...
While Governor Cross sought, perhaps, deliberately, to cloud an issue already difficult for youthful comprehension, Mr. Donal M. Sullivan, the Senior Class orator, brought an aggressive faith to bear on the recuperative powers of the party system. The emotional appeal of his bitter reference to the generation which had taught his own to "worship the golden calf" was well calculated to stir interest in his constructive program. But although he went further than Governor Cross, Mr. Sullivan, too, preferred not to look behind the cars of today's order...
...that instant there was a deafening explosion. The roof and walls of the celluloid factory burst open in a cloud of fire. A hail of bricks pelted the street. Long streamers of flame whipped out of the shattered roof and flapped at the sky. A shower of burning celluloid, floating down in blazing strips and flakes, fell on the screaming mob of men, women and children for a quarter of a mile around. Those who had not been knocked senseless by the impact of the explosion, surged in terror to the river bank, plunged into the water to quench their...