Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publish the reports of the official investigations of the case. Although the 27 unfortunates have been restored to the civil service, it is declared that their dismissal was irregular, that now they are reinstated at less salary than they formerly received, that their names are unjustly left under a cloud. The New York World comments: " The head of the Arizona Vigilance Committee who said to the bereaved widow, ' The drinks are on us, ma'am; we lynched the wrong man,' expressed the President's attitude...
...domestic consumption as 567,000 bales for February compares with 610,000 for January. When the fewer days in February are taken into consideration, it will be seen that despite superficial appearances, the consumption rate for the latter month has really been higher than that for January. The chief cloud on the cotton trade horizon just now is the impending strike of 36,000 employees in the cotton mills of Fall River, who have demanded a 29% wage increase, to offset the cut of 22½% made in January, 1921. This suggestion of renewed labor difficulties comes rather early...
...cloud Ambassador Harvey created by his speech at the Pilgrims' dinner was soon dissipated by his happy allusions to the Prince of Wales at a dinner given by the American University Union in London...
...irritating lack of humor. It is hard to sympathize with anyone who takes himself as seriously as do both Mr. Anderson and his hero. It is altogether too easy to allow one's sense of the ab- surdity of a good many of its episodes to cloud one's perception of the beauty underlying them. It is hard to read it through with a straight face. The Critics. Many Marriages appeared first in The Dial It was hailed by the extremely advanced as another of the yearly crop of "great American novels." Since its publication in book form...
...Mixed metaphors," a sage declares, "are defensible as long as they show fertility rather than poverty of imagination." No doubt W. L. Geroge is a genius; this masterpiece is from one of his novels; "The cloud that tried to stab their happiness was only a false rumor whose bitter taste could not shatter the radiance nor dim the effervescence of their...