Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of lovely Paris is pocked with gun emplacements, searchlight batteries, and trenches. Recently a demonstration of air defenses was held in the ditched and tunneled Esplanade des Invalides outside Napoleon's tomb. There are concrete gun platforms on the wooded Meudon and St. Cloud hills where Americans have their villas and restaurants serve cool drinks to heat-weary Parisians. On Mont Valérien, westward across the Seine from the Bois de Boulogne, is an impressive layout of long-barreled guns and searchlights with independent generators. Large railroad station signs, a give-away to low-flying raiders, have...
...sport and bravely worn" have long since lost their style. But Michael Arlen, who alters the cut of his books at fashion's wink, still has millinery for a stock in trade. "The hats many women wear, even poor women who ought to know better," remarks Johnnie Cloud, narrator of The Flying Dutchman, "are uniformly ugly and idiotic, which is maybe quite natural since, so it's said, fashions for women are made by homosexuals and Lesbians and they don't like women to look attractive...
Johnnie, a U. S. aeronautical expert who in typical Arlen fashion is also the Comte de Saint-Cloud, tells a tale of high adventure in a style which intermittently suggests Ouida, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, E. Phillips Oppenheim and P. G. Wodehouse. Between fashionable adulteries unrolls the story of Johnnie's employer, Chance Winter, an Englishman with world-wide armament connections which he uses to promote the subversive ends of an international secret organization. Suave and ruthless, Winter eventually meets an appropriate fate...
...beaten Republicans and hard-money Democrats were left with nothing to show for their pains except a remote legal cloud hanging over the act. Since it was an act only to extend that which died before the act was passed, could the act resurrect the dead? Attorney General Murphy ruled it could and Franklin Roosevelt signed the act determined to conduct the nation's monetary affairs on that assumption. Republican Senators Taft and Austin argued to the last that no resurrection was possible, but had to admit the only way to prove their point was by a court review...
...feet, the soaring plane skirted a cumulus cloud, was instantly sucked up into it by powerful air currents. Airman Udo Fischer got panicky. At 5,000 feet he bailed out. Minutes later he landed in a farmer's field near Big Flats, N. Y., unhurt but out of the running for the Elmira Soaring Contest's annual $1,500 trophy...