Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Settings for a Fantastic Play. Such were the compositions of Mr. Wilfred. On the screen, like dyes filtered through fathomless deep-sea canisters, colors fainted, burned, swelled, darkened, dwindled, incredibly clear; patterns crossed, shapes passed, cubes collided, vortices spun down through hell, sucking the sight with them, and the earth, like a small ball knitted by music out of cloud and fire, whirled voiceless through the gulf where sound and color merge. Amazed were the listeners, for surely those in the dark hall listened with their eyes. When an enthusiastic dolt began to clap, they hissed him down...
...chapel of the Pieta, Pius XI addressed the religious brotherhoods of Rome, entrusting to them the care of the Holy Door and explaining its significance as the symbol of the eternal door of the City of God. Said he: "We hope the words 'Glory to God and on earth, peace, good will toward men,' will come true. May this Holy Year bring peace to the mind and peace to the heart and peace to the will." Then he blessed his listeners and distributed among them jubilee med; showing the dome of St. Peter's and an image...
There are also disadvantages in the present eclipse. It will take place early in the morning, which is unfavorable, since the sun will be close to the horizon so that all light will come through the earth's atmosphere, at a great angle. Moreover, the region over which it passes is none too likely to have clear weather for observation purposes. At the hours of the eclipse and at the time of the year in which it takes place, the chance of clear weather at Buffalo is only 27%. The chance at Port Huron is 36%. The chance farther eastward...
...region of totality, the observer should turn his eyes westward along the earth. He must be careful not to have looked at the sun too much even through smoked glasses, or he will be unable to see the most important developments. Suddenly sweeping in from the West at great speed* will come the great shadow. Without waiting for it to arrive, he should turn to the sun. It will be totally eclipsed...
There were many Winkelberg relatives, all the same. The whole city, lusting and pulsing in greedy dark animalism, was a city of Winkelbergs. There were a million such Winkelberg cities, a world full of them, a Winkelberg mankind. Every dawn, when the red sun bowled up over the earth, all the Winkelberg bulbs stirred in a blind organism known to the Winkelbergs as a day of life. Personified, this day was a disheveled maniac, a Humpty Dumpty in streaming cheesecloth toga, bawling fresh tidings from Bedlam down the winds of the earth...