Word: miasmal
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...shall be washed as white as snow, By all the martyr'd virgins kist, While the True Church remains below Wrapt in the old miasmal mist...
Elvira's husband goes to Paris, to do the decent British thing, muddles the situation more. Conferences coagulate. Marpurgo flits from group to group, breathing out night thoughts and miasmal metaphysics. When his boss fires him because of his artistic expense accounts, thinks of hiring Oliver in his stead, Marpurgo's scheming grows more satanic. With a gloomy consciousness that he has done all he can, Elvira's husband tires of her vacillations, takes himself back to England. Elvira settles herself to lie on the bed she has made, then suddenly realizes that Oliver is an inconstant...
...airmen. Last month Capt. Plueschow died in a crash in South America (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week Germany came very close to losing her other idol. Having completed a motion picture job in Tanganyika, Africa, Capt. Udet headed back to Europe. Approaching Khartoum he was forced down in the miasmal Sudanese swamps. Luck was with him; he found and made a landing on one of the swamps' few patches of hard ground. There, days later, Capt. Campbell Black found him, was able to land beside...
...however, the possible advantages to be gained from the stimulation of friendship between students become legion. Its immense significance to the cause of peace need not be emphasized. If international good-will is ever to be achieved, it will be only through mutual understanding, through the dissipation of the miasmal mist of national prejudice and bigotry which have in the past played the role of fairy god-mothers at the birth...