Word: haze
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...ship. I suddenly saw in the haze 200 yards away the Government destroyer Alcald Galiano. She blazed away with all her forward batteries...
...Derby, though bookmakers estimated that more money had been bet on the race than ever before, was the gloomiest since the War. The huge crowd-perching on the tops of automobiles or busses, milling about fortune tellers' tents in the central enclosure, raising a great grey haze of dust above the Downs-was less rowdy than usual. The glass-enclosed box, where the Aga Khan last year received congratulations from his King, was banked with flowers and conspicuously empty...
...largest dirigible, just in after her first crossing of the North Atlantic from Friedrichshafen. Germany. A searchlight reached up played over the fabric, came to rest on the swastikas on the rudder. Other lights on the airship twinkled back. Presently the 803-ft. sausage nosed into the haze over the Hudson, flew on toward Lakehurst, N. J. There a huge crowd had lined the U. S. Navy's vast lighter-than-air field for hours. At 5140 a.m. someone spotted the Zeppelin's big round nose poking up over the horizon in a pink glow from the rising...
...Many people ascribe the decline in cigar smoking to the accelerated pace of American life," meditated Administrator Kolodny in a fine blue haze. "Others declare it is partly due to the invasion of women smoking cigarets." But whatever the cause, said he, the Cigar Progress Board was out to restore the cigar's oldtime prestige. Cigar makers, who will save some $3,800,000 this year through invalidation of AAA processing taxes, will support the following CPB efforts...
...sighs. Her family bores her. She yearns for more expensive things. One Saturday evening a handsome Boston socialite, young Dr. Bob Dakin* (Robert Taylor), sweeps up to the curb in his icecream roadster, takes her for a ride, gives her some champagne. Next morning, he emerges from an alcoholic haze to learn that he has married...