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...station platform until she falls. After a brief agony in a hospital, Death pays her wages in full. Beginning, as in Hatter's Castle, with a cloud no bigger than a man's hand, Author Cronin by slow degrees enfolds his unforgettable characters in a Scottish mist, made not only of Nature's weeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queer Fish | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...game, which is scheduled for 8.30, should be a closely contested affair, for the Toronto stickmen are conquerors of the strong Yale sextet by a 4 to 0 score, and tied Princeton in a hard-fought game which had to be called on account of a mysterious mist which settled over the ice in Madison Square Garden, where the game was played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HOCKEY TEAM CLASHES WITH TORONTO | 1/8/1932 | See Source »

Fear lest Japan and Russia shoot it out over Manchuria focused the world's eye on Moscow one day last week. Mist shrouded the Red Square. Through wisps of white the pointed towers of the Kremlin looked down like medieval alchemists in tall, peaked hats; at one corner of the flat-topped red granite tomb of LENIN stood Dictator Joseph Stalin, the Red War Lord?if he should choose to declare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-RUSSIA: Two War Lords | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...peasoup fog blew in over New Jersey one day last week, just after Pilot Albert Vale and his wife had taken off from Preakness, homeward bound to Philadelphia. The mist enveloped them. It was impossible to go on, too late to turn back. They would make for the field at Paterson nearby. Cautiously Pilot Vale flew as low as he dared, straining for the welcome sight of wind-sock or hangar-roof. After a nerve-wrenching period of groping his heart leapt. There on the ground was a plane! Pilot Vale carefully swung around into the wind, put his ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Decoy | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...those who, most unfortunately, did not. There were top hats and Chesterfields. There were purple satins and old golds. There were the first warm greeting and the last cold good night. There were the best of times, and there were the worst of times. There was an evening mist. There were missed chances. There was the garish, gilt ballroom flooded with light. And there was the moon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/3/1931 | See Source »

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