Word: haze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final test, Lieut. George W. Goddard flew between the two towns in a haze of very low visibility; without paying the slightest attention to possible landmarks, he kept his course with practically no deviation...
...less superlative in their attacks upon this knight of the spotless scutcheon? notably W. E. Henley, his erstwhile patron and intimate, who registered savage protest against the "Seraph in Chocolate," the "Barley-Sugar Effigy" of legend. With nicely considered moderation, Mr. Steuart aims at the truth behind the haze of contradiction...
These are not recommendations which appeal to anyone but the chauvinist and the jingo. Everyone agrees that America should have an army adequate for police protection; that is, everyone but the military man. This unfortunate looks at everything through a red haze, and all he sees is an infinity of armed nations about to spring upon a defenseless America. The United States is not at present threatened with war with any formidable nation, nor is it likely to be for some time...
Nipping winds and purple haze have promised football for some time, but it is only today that their pledge is realized. To compensate for this unseemly delay, however, there come the glad tidings that the opening game will be a truly gala affair. The band which has hitherto spent early season Saturdays practicing its mystical evolutions has overcome self-consciousness and will appear in true November fashion. This clearing of its brassy throat depends, of course, upon the arrival of uniforms, but indeed without rakishly set sailor caps and boldly crimson sweaters, the band would cut but a sorry figure...
While the past is always charmingly wrapped in a golden haze, the future in this case is no less pleasing. For year after year the undergraduate has listened apathetically to appeals for his interest in the seething world outside. Except when such participation promised a gay torchlight procession or a chance to hurl milk bottles without interference it moved him not. But when deans and presidents themselves rush from the cloister the undergraduates will doubtless fling aside robes and sandals and plunge into the whirring world...