Word: hazing
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...present investigation, the newshawk seen most frequently over Mr. Black's shoulder is dressy, hard-boiled Paul Y. Anderson, able correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Anderson's whole career has been spent digging up scandals, until today he sees public affairs almost entirely through a haze of suspicions. He attached himself to Senator Walsh in the original Teapot Dome investigation, later scribbled two questions on a piece of paper and handed it to that inquisitor. For refusing to answer those two questions Chairman Robert W. Stewart of Standard Oil of Indiana was tried for contempt of the Senate...
...defended by contemporary partisans who did not hesitate to employ torture and forgery to establish her guilt or innocence. To the confusions bred by religious antagonisms, Scottish and English national rivalries added more contradictions, until the personality of Mary Stuart was obscured, even in her own day, in a haze of moral, religious and political disputes...
...your own conclusions." It was generally understood that this latest military secret works by means of infra-red radiation. Emitted by ships and all other objects, this radiation occupies a place on the spectrum between visible light and radio waves, pierces much farther than light does through fog and haze...
Wrote Reporter Stanley Frank in the New York Evening Post: "The personalities and faces of the players were lost in the haze. . . . The game became purely mechanical and synthetic...
...paintings and sketches in the Keppel Gallery were views of New York City, mostly from a height. Most of them were lit dully with Manhattan's typical daytime haze. Brooklyn, painted in the early morning before the factory chimneys got going, was clear and colorful. All were ably rendered pictures, well worth waiting half a century...