Word: murk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice of a man amplified to unearthliness rumbled through the hall. Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, a midget in white, stood in a blaze of golden light from batteries of lights above his head. Everywhere cigaret smoke curled through the blue beams of eight great floodlights glaring down from the murk upon the G. O. P.'s quadrennial passion play of politics...
...church music and a commentary by a U. S. priest named Rev. Matthew Kelly, the picture presents no conflict, reaches no climax, accepts without demur the phenomenon of women adopting a medieval mode of life to become mystical brides of Christ. Much of Cloistered was filmed in a churchly murk illumined with twinkling candles and rare shafts of sunlight. Arresting shots: nuns wielding pickaxes, laying bricks, pecking typewriters, operating a printing press; penitents sewing under the watchful eyes of Magdalens; a single nun prostrating herself face down; nuns swirling to & fro before a classic portico; the great scenes of investiture...
...from the most illiterate classes in Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia through interpreters. Author Spivak is a shade too ready to forecast the collapse of tyrannies, to overestimate the potency of the rebellious spirit. His book is valuable as a document of a kind that rarely emerges from the censored murk of dictatorship...
...headstart ticked away, Pilot Howard watched the clock, listened nervously for the roar of Colonel Turner's low-wing monoplane. Just as time was about up, he heard it, saw the golden Wedell-Williams racer streaking out of the murk for the finish. Ever the showman, Pilot Turner zoomed into a grandiloquent flourish over the stands, banked off into the haze, landed. Excitedly, the timers calibrated their watches, finally announced the closest Bendix finish in history. Pilot Howard had won the 2,046-mi. race by 23½ seconds. Third was handsome Russell Thaw, son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry...
...long voyage through a long fog, there comes a time when visibility improves, when men can again take a sight on the sun and calculate their day of making port. Last week, after nearly six months in a legislative pea soup. Congress suddenly reached the fringes of the murk. The gentleman from Texas said to the gentleman from Oregon and the gentleman from Oregon said to the gentleman from Maine: "It looks like we might go home about the 15th of July." Then they all said to one another: "But if we're finishing by then...