Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been politicians who sailed down New York Harbor one morning last week aboard the lighter Charlie White to greet James John Walker. The onetime (1925-32) Mayor of New York was returning to his native city after three years of self-exile in Europe. A pall of dirty fog overhung the harbor. But it did not compare with the cloud which hung over Mr. Walker's head when he resigned his job and sailed away from New York in 1932 in disgrace, unwilling to face out removal charges before Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (TIME, Sept. 12, 1932 et ante...
...something prodigious to help them in their jobs of supervising menus in hospitals, hotels, restaurants, schools and relief kitchens, Western Reserve's able Professor Thomas Wingate Todd declared: "There are three criteria of a stomach that is up to its job: 1) a mind free from fog; 2) an abdomen free from discomfort; 3) a sleep free from dreams...
...awarding jurors. . . . The present show is largely invited and presumably is a carefully considered cross-section of American art as it is being produced in the studios of today. If so, then the proletarian gloom that hangs over our artists is becoming as thick as Stalin's Russian fog."-Clarence Joseph Bulliet in the Chicago Daily News...
After the scrimmage Harlow was asked if there weren't several changes ahead but he refused to commit himself. Nevertheless it was obvious that several men stand to lose their jobs as the result of the battle on fog-bound Soldiers Field yesterday...
...some 2,000,000 privately-owned carriers in the "reserve." After ten years of experiments at Fort Monmouth, N. J., the Signal Corps has developed a brood of 100 night-flying pigeons-first of their kind. Particularly useful in connection with military planes, they can fly through rain, sleet, fog, snow and around thunderstorms, are vulnerable to nighthawks but little else. They do not fly entirely by blind instinct, but apparently have their own system of avigation. The secret is supposedly in the ear, since the birds are unable to fly with their ears stopped up. U. S. distance record...