Word: haze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grasshopper Hill), an edifice of imperial magnificence, begun by the Spanish Viceroy Don Matias de Galvez (1783), the coffin of Señora Calles was lifted from the hearse and borne into one of the huge, resplendent grand salons. An airplane droned overhead, scattering roses; and through a blue haze the sacred mountains Iztaccihuatl (White Woman) and Popocatepetl (Smoke Mountain) seemed brooding. Simple peons, kneeling in the lovely, verdant Bosque de Chapultepec, muttered prayers half pagan, half Roman Catholic to Iztaccihuatl who they fancy resembles the white, reclining form of a pagan goddess -now somewhat confused with the Virgin Mary...
...feverish industrialism and its cold, northern Berlin. They were Bavarians, and before them stood their "Rightful King." Was he not even a Hero-King? Certainly he had been a Feldmarschall during the War, and commanded troops which struck fast and far into enemy territory. Suddenly, in a bright emotional haze, there may have swum before minds in that cheering, singing crowd a vision of "the good old days"?days that seemed not so good when they were...
...keep on raining much longer. Merely taking into consideration the laws of chance-if such be not contradictious in terms-there must be a few sunny days soon; a few mornings when the fresh spring green of the landscape glistens with sparkling dew-drops; afternoons when the light blue haze hangs over the Yard; nights when a round silver moon peeps over the tree tops through its gossemer veil of clouds, etc etc. In other words, the authority of the CRIMSON'S weather line notwithstanding, it is whispered that optimism reigns among some of the denizens of Plympton Street...
...haze of legal phraseology and latinized please which hung over the Superior Criminal Court of East Cambridge yesterday the average uninformed layman can discern three points: one, the court's decision, is a fact and therefore serious; the second is an analogy and consequently a bit whimsical; the third might be called subtle and is certainly rich in allusions...
...incident pinked British sentimentalism near the heart. Next day London newspapers were ecstatic. Royalty and Sir James were served up in a golden haze of Peter Pantheism. Then a despatch arrived from Sydney, Australia, where Baby Betty's mother, the Duchess of York, was sojourning with the Duke after arriving from England on H. M. S. Renown. The despatch told, briefly that on the outward voyage the Duchess and her two ladies-in-waiting disported themselves nightly with the Duke and members of his suite by dancing the authentic Charleston. As a result, continued the despatch, numerous British tars...