Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convinced that President Hoover's unwillingness was due to the cloud of political disrepute over Harding's name, the association unanimously voted to postpone all its dedication indefinitely. Up rose at the meeting Harry Micajah Daugherty, Harding's Attorney General, his great & good friend, whose loyalty has never flagged, to declare...
Both Miss Alexander and Mr. Williams do their utmost for the piece, but a composite ghost it still remains. Brown Buddies. The opinion that Bill Robinson, "The Dark Cloud of Joy," is the world's greatest tap-dancer, announced at a recent convention of the American Association of Dance Masters (TIME, Sept. 8), is shared by many. For more than 30 years he pranced around Benjamin Franklin Keith's vaudeville circuit. Two years ago he entered musi-comedy with an appearance in Blackbirds of 1928. If he was not the first man to clog up and down...
...more homeloving bodies than Publisher Adolph Ochs and Business Manager Louis Wiley of the New York Times would be hard to find. Yet their newspaper is the country's foremost daily recorder of expeditions to remote spots upon the earth and off it-cloud-piercing peaks, profound caverns, world's ends, experimental rocketeering. Last week at the New Jersey Newspaper Institute, the man whom Messrs. Ochs & Wiley sent to Antarctica to write daily rhapsodies about the Byrd expedition, eloquent Reporter Russell Owen, explained: "The newspaper in this age of uneconomic unhappiness and social unrest has discovered...
...fact that this viewpoint was presented as palatable for a Phi Beta Kappa gathering does not detract from its value to the ordinary layman. Especially at Harvard, Georgian overtones carefully mingled with the muted chords of aristocracy must be balanced by a freer cadence, or an overpowering suffocation may cloud the symphony completely. In an environment such as the House Plan has created and will create, an environment beautiful in itself and of itself good, the student may have difficulty in remembering that it is the House and not himself that is to be stippled, dadoed, and painted in conventional...
...seen from the river, but what that House loses in water view it gains in privacy and quiet. And the tower itself! What happy stroke of artistry decreed its color scheme? See it for the first time on a summer's day of blithe blue air, with white clouds flying, and you will think it a bit of sky caught by the wings and pinioned up aloft there white of cloud, blue of heaven, and gold of the gun. Hellenic, too; for these are the colors which everywhere in Greece fill the eye and flood the mind...