Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field that man is still a little surprised at being able to fly. But when a coastal steamer meets doom on its accustomed journey, or when a flood destroys a valley, the old elements laugh at the real impotence of humanity. The claims of chemical rain-makers and cloud-destroyers have so far met with failure as complete as that of learns. Snow, rain, wind can still toy with man, much as in those days; the superman who rules the elements is still only a dream of Greek myths and German poets...
...figure rises, moves slowly towards the door, sways slightly, impervious to the thunder which rises like a cloud from the floor, trembles in the pendant air. The courage of Smith. Coward! I lack the ordinary manhood to rise and hand in this paper. When I was twelve years old . . . my stepfather hit me on the head with a paper-weight, . . . surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. I will sit here, afraid to leave until the last minute has ticked itself into obscurity, because an inferiority complex shall follow me all the days...
Last week, eight years after leaving under a politically-brewed cloud, Theodore Gilmore Bilbo returned in triumph to the State Capitol of Mississippi, for his second four-year term as Governor. Once tried and acquitted of bribery, Mr. Bilbo had recarved his career, whetting the fighting edge of his ambition on the grindstone of his persecution.* Inaugurated once more, he reiterated all the things he wanted to do for Mississippi. The list sounded to the holiday crowd that had flocked to Jackson from counting house and cotton field, like a sane program to fulfill. It included...
...replete with prosecutions, in all of which the picture of a tyrannical and brutal trial judge occupies the most lurid position in the public mind. Especially the prosecutions in Ireland toward the close of the eighteenth century at the crucial stage of the American legal system threw its dark cloud upon the young nation looking for guidance. Consequently, in view of the abominations perpetrated under the name of the common law judges of Great Britain and the popular prejudice of the times against them, it is small wonder that the American attitude of regarding the unrestrained common law judge...
...history of her growth and change is divided into three episodes, each with a new background, a new partner. The first episode has for its background a smart summer town in Maine and for Claire's partner a youth whose adolescent romanticism is as vapid as a cloud. When, to impress his faithless inamorata, Nelson Smock paddled his canoe into the surf beyond the inshore calm, she, riding by in a motorboat with a different gallant, remained gay and callous. " 'Nelson,' Claire called, 'you have'nt any idea how funny you look...