Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cash or checks. Said J. E. Fenton, Acting Prime Minister in the absence of James Henry Scullin (on his way back from the Imperial Conference at London): "I am very hopeful that if we continue to pull together we will soon find come out of the black cloud of depression and enjoy the sunlight of prosperity...
...motor in its Salon and "Group A" lines by a new nine-bearing crankshaft, improved carburetion by adding a combination "suction silencer and cold-air intake with seasonal adjustment," discarded rod brake-controls for cable controls. Price not announced. Reo introduced two new eights-"Flying Cloud" and "Reo Royale"-as well as the old "Flying Cloud" six. Bodies are French-designed, with a slanting windshield. Prices on "Flying Clouds": $1,595 up. Price of "Reo Royale...
...offstage crockery crash which annually opens the Gridiron Club's dinner was explained this time as: "That's the American people vindicating Mr. Hoover at the polls." General fun-making included a song: "Oh, the moon's behind a cloud along the Wabash, for the Democrats are making all the hay; in the sycamores the G. O. P. is hiding, on the banks of the Wabash hell's to pay." President Hoover, present as No. 1 guest as usual, as usual addressed his news-gathering hosts, as usual eased his feelings in reply to their horse...
...Font and his aides saw the newspaper story, rushed to the Chanin Building before even the Pan American office force had arrived, waited in an agitated huddle. President Trippe placated them, put in a hurry call for Technical Adviser Charles Augustus Lindbergh to take them to luncheon at the Cloud Club on the 66th floor of the Chrysler Building across the street. Then he telephoned Second Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover in Washington, requesting that the official confirmation of the story be sure to state that "Aeropostale probably would be interested" in the trans-atlantic project. Mr. Glover also...
...Washington, D.C. last week, firemen answered an alarm at the Washington Cathedral, discovered that what Edwin N. Lewis of the Cathedral staff had thought was a cloud of smoke around the 225 ft. spire was a great swarm of gnats...