Word: haze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blaze was of obscure origin. At 8.50, three details of firemen from the Brattle St. station, arrived at the door of Dunster F-44 to find the study a haze of smoke. With smarting eyes, their leader discerned the cause of the smoke; a sofa in the far corner was oxidizing rapidly, crackling like a good log fire on a winter's night. A consultation was held; the sofa was tossed from the window. And, as the inhabitants of Dunster jeered, the firemen danced their weird tribal dance around the blazing pyre...
Infra-red rays, invisible and insensible, pierce much farther through fog than visible light. With cameras using infra-red-sensitive film, special lenses and filters, mountains lost in haze have been photographed from hundreds of miles away, group pictures of people have been taken in pitch-black rooms...
...most remarkable of all the eyes on earth, being often both telescopic and microscopic. . . . Visual acuity is almost incredible, being in some instances 100 times as great as that in men. . . . Birds do not see blues and violets at all. This helps in their distance vision because the haze which hangs about distant objects and which, for our eyes, renders them more or less invisible, for birds does not exist. Birds, on the other hand, see infra-red radiations which, for us, affect only the temperature sense of the skin and not the retinas...
...yaller, an' they're a-movin' gentle-like, back an' forth, back an' forth, jest enough to let you know they're there. This is the fall o' the year, with the air so dang full o' haze that it looks like a lot o' spiders has been stringin' their webs around. Warm soft air, an' still it's got a bite in it, too. The days is gittin' late. Purty soon it'll be time to git out the old houn...
...been subtitled "the next best thing," and it is truly the next best thing on the current Metropolitan program. Against the background of that baronial Ireland which his own plays made popular, Mr. Fiske O'Hara disports with his comely daughters, Janet Gaynor and Margaret Lindsay. All is a haze of moss, lichen, and the soft tints of old stone, with a plethora of brogue and much quasi-Irish sentiment, which is to say that "Paddy" is closely related to "Sweetheart Darlin'," and at a respectful distance from Synge and Lady Gregory. Warner Baxter is very rich, the Adairs...