Word: haze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon us; a day and a night spent in hurried review of a course, remembering dates and names, movements, policies, statesmanship; hurried jottings of calculations, of supposedly important facts (if we know or have an idea of what the instructor likes): charred table-edges from forgotten cigarettes, a blue haze of tobacco smoke, heeled butts crowding the corners. Visions of the instructor who faithfully peruses his text in order that he may find catch questions (we imagine) and matters of no import, so that he may smile lightly when he sees the surprised visages of his students the following morning...
Bridge, under the stimulus of new rules and radio publicity, is even more to the fore than usual. In college and out, enthusiasts have been busy rehearsing novel penalties and strange scorings. In a haze of numerals, one pregnant sentence of Work and Whitehead's book may easily be overlooked:--"Offenses against the etiquette of the game are unpardonable...
From the belly of the giant British dirigible 12-33, which moved majestically above a yellow haze that was the city of London, a trapeze was lowered on the end of which dangled a tiny airplane. For a moment it swung there perilously; then its motor took hold and it careered away, maneuvering all about the big dirigible, sniffing at air pockets, nosing through patches of heathery cloud, like a baby kangaroo which had got out of its mother's pouch. Presently the dirigible flashed a signal; the long metallic umbilical cord was lowered again and the airplane whined...
...paper of that day, commenting on this, continued: "Notwithstanding this warning, on the 19th, a band of Sophomores met two Freshmen, and began to 'haze' them, until one of the two drew a pistol loaded with powder, and fired it into the face of one of the Sophs. The latter then withdrew to their rooms, making a great noise, and threatning to annihilate the Freshmen. Next day the Faculty met, heard evidence on the subject, and decided to suspend eight of the Sophs...
...fill the newspapers. "Jones, crazed by smoke, beats wife and evicts children from home," and "Smith, arrested on a charge of giving a cigarette to his twenty year old son breaks down, confesses he got the idea from movies." Little six year old Annie will stumble through the blue haze that fills the local blind tiger, and, her eyes streaming with tears, murmur pathetically "I've come to take Daddy home...