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Word: clouded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Sartre, the high prophet of existentialism (TIME, Jan. 28), gave New Yorkers who read Town & Country an esoteric's cloud-high view of their metropolis, packed tight with steel, stone and bricks. Wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Rock Desert | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...Scott Fitzvag entered a strangely quiet Yard. Harvard Hall, his destination, was deserted. It is now Monday morning at ten o'clock, said Vag, and I'm quite sure that I have been coming here every Monday morning at ten o'clock since the term began. A dark cloud blotted out the sun, and a cold sweat broke out on Vag's face. The very worst occurred to him immediately. Had the great revival begun; at this very moment was everyone else sleeping off the after effects of the new era's launching! Had he missed the first inning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/7/1946 | See Source »

...came out from behind the cloud. Vag glanced at the figures scurrying up and down the Widener front porch. Two weeks to exams, he mused, and. . . "Reading Period," he screamed to the squirrels and pigeons. It wasn't too late. He started off rapidly toward Widener, kept on past it, dodged across Mass. Avenue, bounded down Holyoke Street and raced up the stairs to his room. "The Great Gatsby" was on the rug where he had left it, and there was an inch of amber left in the bottle on the mantlepiece. F. Scott Fitzvag held the bottle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/7/1946 | See Source »

Last week Ann and Patrick II arrived at Washington's National Airport to be greeted by a cloud of newsmen and diaper-service salesmen. Wildly enthusiastic about her first, Ann is once again expecting. But second babies, they say, are always easier. Patrick's prospective sister, 2½ weeks old, is ready and waiting in England. Delivery: some time this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Travailogue | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Readers who follow Eudora Welty's train across the Mississippi Delta will find that its last stop is cloud-cuckoo land-which was also the setting of Author Welty's previous books: A Curtain of Green (TIME, Nov. 24, 1941); The Wide Net (TIME, Sept. 27, 1943). In those short stories (which won her one Guggenheim Award and three O. Henry Memorial Awards, as well as distinguished critical praise), Author Welty showed that she could envision and remodel men & women in such a way that when they appeared in her pages-clothed in a fairy-taleish, often brilliant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cloud-Cuckoo Symphony | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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