Word: mist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjoining wall, the sick and sagging figure of the old man himself, and even the murky, unreal light and haphazard composition all helped put across the mood Stuempfig was after. Like The Lifeboat and others of his best works, The Old Man was a familiar scene glimpsed through a mist of tenderness and gloom...
Something Impalpable. "Just as in autumn," cries Sir Osbert Sitwell, casting his radiant glance back over the Firbank life work, "the silver cobwebs lightly cover the trees with a thin mist of impalpable beauty, so a similar . . . intangible loveliness hung over every page, while wit ran in, round, and underneath each word...
...exhibition spanned a century, from the meticulous White Hall Plantation painted by Christophe Colomb about 1800, to a mist-shrouded painting of the river at night, done in 1905 by Frederick Oakes Sylvester. Between the two were a handful of great and near-great artists: naturalist-painters such as John James Audubon, Missouri's George Caleb Bingham who immortalized the river's roistering flatboatmen, and Indian Painters Charles Bodmer and George Catlin...
Then he left for a three-day visit to Canada; with his party he viewed Niagara Falls from Maid-of-the-Mist (see cut). This week Pandit Nehru would take off on a two-week flying trip across the U.S. to continue what he called his education...
...cruiser escort slipped out of Grimstad Fiord before British bombers could be put to work on them. Admiral Sir John Tovey, commander of the Home Fleet, ordered every available ship deployed to bring them to battle. Then, on the evening of May 23, as the cruiser Suffolk hugged the mist between Iceland and Greenland, Able Seaman Newell let out a hail from, starboard. There, 14,000 yards away, were the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen. The Suffolk ducked back into the fog in a hurry (the Bismarck's guns had a range of 40,000 yards), then gingerly shadowed...