Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find heaps of large and small panels, some very interesting, but which to a large extent are loosely painted and "up in the air." In "Sanks Road, Maushon" we see a daring attempt with red which is very attractive but the cool blue of the water color in the sky and the yellow toned trees mingle triumphantly in the spectator's eye. The picture hangs together while the predilection for red is an added attraction...
Sixteen East Gay Street is a picture of a street in Columbus, Ohio. Several people are walking along the sidewalk and a pair of children are fixing a tricycle. In the space between the two houses across the street the sky slants a light on the asphalt, and makes the leaves of the trees as bright as coins. It is late afternoon; in the golden twilight everything seems very quiet. If you look at the picture long enough, the man sitting on the porch will fold up his paper and go in to have supper...
...present has the rank of a colonel, has advocated making colonelcies possible for all chaplains and giving the chief of chaplains the rank of major general. Major general is the highest U. S. Army rank, except in war. Infantry & artillery officers resent the idea of the chief of 125 "sky pilots" being ranked equally with the few U. S. soldiers who rise to command 10,000 to 12,000 (a peacetime Army division...
Whether or not Chief of Chaplains Axton would be involuntarily retired or not appeared to depend upon the lobbying strength of various church organizations in sympathy with his efforts to obtain for modest "sky pilots," Army rankings which they consider commensurate with the spiritual plane of their duties. Should Chief of Chaplains Axton, the Utah Congregationalist, be retired, next in line for his post would be Chaplain E. P. Easterbrook, Methodist Episcopalian now stationed at Fort Sam Houston...
...aimed 3-inch "archies" at 27-foot sock-shaped targets towed 1,200 yards behind bombing planes more than two miles aloft. Giant searchlights picked out the "socks". Machine gun tracer bullets streaked aloft. White flowers with angry red centres blossomed abruptly and faded where shrapnel burst in the sky. A direct hit of the last target's towline ended the show. Experts pronounced the anti-aircraft marksmanship the best yet achieved...