Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CLOUD...
...cannot too much rejoice in this new-found champion. Under the impetus furnished by Mr. Lowrie, Pittsburgh will undoubtedly dispel its cloud and become the aesthetic center of the country. Perhaps strong-minded school teachers, nurtured in the best traditions of Kalamasas, will interpret much-discussed passages in Babelais, and the Chicago school of literary self-explorers become more than stock-yard rimesters. Culture, liberty, and individualism have at last come to their predestined habitat...
...thick cloud of black smoke produced by an airplane flying along the Charles River will announce today the arrival of Major General Amos A. Fries, who will speak at a Union luncheon tomorrow on the subject of chemical warfare. General Fries is chief of the Chemical Warfare Service of the United States Army...
...country and it still can invoke a bitter contest between aspirants. Why else did the aspirants for the Speakership begin to lay their plans as soon as it was known, last fall, that Mr. Gillett was to be elevated to the Senate? Why else did an atramental cloud of controversy settle over the struggle, political cuttlefish and squid belch their inky exudation over the contest? Why else did Madden (Chairman of the all-powerful Appropriations Committee) and Longworth (Republican Floor Leader) join fiercely in the issue of their ambitions? Martin B. Madden, white-haired and 70, quarryman by profession...
...what answer the fingers of Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee had written on the walls. They saw a picture which, so it seemed to them, could be nothing but a pathologist's graph of a difficult neurosis (The Ray-Kandinsky) ; a lithograph of the wedding of debauched parallels (The Cloud- Feininger) ; a diagram of the unfortunate encounter of a cloud of locusts and a windmill (Abstraction-Jawlensky) ; the furious attempt of a carburetor to become a French horn (Mathematic Vision-Klee). Some of the curious, appalled, then took themselves off, hand to head; others marshaled their faculties...