Word: mist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...production of Mr. Iden Payne. Settings, costumes, etc., are arranged to the key of 1830, the age of tasseled canes and wonderful waistcoats, when a copy of Don Juan lay on the dressing tables of ladies of fashion; a picture of old England in its autumn, smiling through the mist of factory smoke just beginning to rise. Unfortunately a production set in so delightful a key has to be something more than a mere picture, or even a mere dramatization; it ought to be a play in its own right, and this "Major Pendennis" is not. It is little else...
...slippery field, and a dark, heavy mist over the Stadium came along yesterday to add to the present difficulties of the University football team...
...long talk in the Locker Building and a half-hour's signal drill in the Cage, but dissatisfied with the showing being made lately, Coach Haughton wound up the afternoon's work by staging a hard scrimmage on the field. The play was impeded by the thick mist and wet turf, but before it was stopped at 5 o'clock by utter darkness, every man was sent in to take part. No scoring was made, for the University team could not make consistent progress through the seconds' line, this being the only safe method of attack on the slippery field...
...University nine again showed its calibre yesterday when it defeated the Pilgrims 8 to 1 in a game which was played under anything but ideal conditions. A cold mist hindered the pitchers somewhat but did not seem to affect the hitting, as the University team secured 12 safeties. Three double plays, together with long hits by Nash and Harte served to enliven an otherwise uninteresting game. McLaughlin, the Pilgrim's pitching captain was hit freely during his stay in the box. He was relieved by Davis, who was more successful and allowed but two hits in three innings. Whitney...
...legal, or industrial, in the status of woman would do a great harm to women and thence to the family. She closed with the plea that the whole woman suffrage question depends on people thinking in the light of reason and justice, instead of seeing the cause through the mist of their own prejudices or the conservatism which is bred of custom; in short, that people should consider the question on its own merits...