Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West, Mrs. Jimmy Walker (formerly Dancer Betty Compton) failed to get her divorce (TIME. Feb. 24) after all, ended by having to pay court costs. Asking what she meant when she told newshawks earlier this year "there is not a rift in the cloud" of her married life, the judge declared her "pleadings and proofs" against New York City's onetime mayor and present clothing-industry boss "support at best a case of incompatibility and not a case of extreme cruelty within the meaning of the law in Florida. Incompatibility is not a ground for divorce in this State...
...Perry reported his position by radio, got the Atlanta weather from the tower. It was no bargain. The cloud base was only 300 feet off the ground and even this ceiling was variable. Standing on the ground, a man could see only one mile; beyond that range, drizzling rain and thin fog blotted out lights. Had the weather been a jot worse-it was down to CAA minimum-Jim Perry would have had to land somewhere else...
...Egypt and he seemed to do nothing about it, there was a strong movement in London to recall him. Anthony Eden stood up for him. Twice Eden flew to the Middle East and talked with him. The second time, he may have warned General Wavell he was under a cloud. Shortly afterwards Sir Archibald attacked. And now, if ever faith was vindicated, Anthony Eden's faith in Sir Archibald Wavell certainly was. In the startling conquest of Cyrenaica, he had proved himself the best general the British have produced in the entire war. When war in Africa began, Archie...
Mirror and gateway, mirage, cloud against...
...sing in his opera. Well she sang it, but she postured in stained-glass attitudes, walked in the gait of a woman trying out an unfamiliar wooden leg. Singing at her lover from a parapet, Soprano Moore pounded the scenery like a Bronx housewife pounding a counter, raised a cloud of dust that cruelly dispelled the mood of the moment. Obviously the Metropolitan needed not only more conductors like Guest Montemezzi, but also a good duster-wielding housekeeper...