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Word: cloudly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Twain sequence, however, is butchered almost beyond belief. The climactic total eclipse scene is so speeded up that the whole affair could easily be mistaken for a small but dark cloud passing in front of the sun. Hollywood, it seems, is so dreadfully afraid of boring its customers that it baffles them instead...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

During the war, Empson worked in England for the BBC; he married, and then returned to Peking National University, where he intends to stay. Last summer, however, he taught at Kenyon College, in Ohio-a gentle, wiry little man who, as one friend put it, "wandered around in a cloud of black beard, talking animatedly to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coping With the Flood | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Sixty miles up in the sky there is a cloud of electricity. Tonight, slowly and mysteriously, it will vanish. Professor Roland B. Holt wants to know...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Physicists Twirl Atoms, Aim Radio | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

Holt studies the region high above the earth, where the sky is always black and the temperature may be 1000 degrees. By working in a Jefferson Hall laboratory, he is learning the processes which might explain the nightly disappearance of the electron cloud...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Physicists Twirl Atoms, Aim Radio | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

...Look enters its second week this afternoon. At 12 a.m. last Friday, a monster strode into 14 Plympton Street. Late Sunday night it belched a cloud of black smoke and omitted the first picture engraved on the premises over run by the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advent of Photo Engraving Machine Rocks Local Daily | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

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