Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Salvador. Three cannon blasts bumped the air and the thickening crowd at the air field cheered. Col. Lindbergh was due in one hour. Late comers chugged eagerly up, arguing excitedly at tripled taxi prices; their eyes on the sky. Presently the shattering "Viva Lindbergh." The crowd charged the plane; Col. Lindbergh screamed them back. 'It took 15 minutes for his escort to push him through the crowd to the hangar where waited President Pio Romero Bosque, the Cabinet, the General Staff, diplomats...
...World on Wheels" in 1879, in this case two wheels instead of the present day four, views the approach of the time when highways will be filled with riders, just as now illustrators present a sky crowded with man-made birds. A striking prophecy is contained in the engraving of 1846 on "Hyde Park as it will be." Although the automobiles which fill the entire scene are propelled by steam and resemble dwarfed locomotives rather than modern cars, the whole idea of the picture seems prophetic of the present era, some eighty years later...
Sirs: Your Waco, Tex., man, who squirts a jet of poison gas at Tom Johnson and Newton D. Baker, two really great men, brings to mind a little poem, towit: "A little dog barked at the big red moon That smiled in the evening sky. The neighbors smote him with rocks and shoon- But still he continued his ragful tune. And he barked 'till his throat was dry. But, soon 'neath the hill that obstructed the west, The moon sank out of sight; And the little dog said, as he laid down to rest, "Well, I scared...
Skjellerup's comet, originally expected to become visible Monday night and which has not yet appeared here, will not appear until the night before Christmas or on Christmas morning. It was learned at a late hour last night from the Harvard College Observatory. Owing to the fact that the sky-wanderer is pursuing a course divergent from the one original computed for it and now seems to lie along a line passing through the earth and the sun, it will not be readily visible as at first believed. When it comes within range, it will be for only one nocturnal...
Wild Geese, brushing across a cobwebbed sky, become for Judith Gare the symbol of a freedom she achieves when her father's avarice finally traps him into death. Spots of melodrama, blotches of theatrical emotion do less, to mar the story than to prove that sincere acting can make these defects seem trivial. Belle Bennett (whose reward for a fine performance in Stella Dallas has been a succession of mediocre roles) and Eve Southern (who wore dark hair and a fixed expression in The Gaucho) are competent to effect a more than satisfactory transposition of Martha Ostenso...