Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Osawatomie, Kansas, U. S. history has on several occasions been made.- Last week in Osawatomie, U. S. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri made a speech on which he informally opened his campaign for the Democratic-Presidential nomination. Under a blue and windy sky the farmers who had come to town for the annual Farmers' Union munched hot dogs or cones and stood on their feet with their hands in their pockets. Their wives, many with yowling babies in arm, soon strolled away from the platform. The voice of Mr. Reed sounded incongruously vehement in the placid, warm afternoon...
...evening turned up the silver sliver of a new moon in the sky the German baker, Ernst Vierkoetter, kneaded his way, machinelike, down the last mile. He stumbled up the breakwater steps happy. He had won $30,000. The crowd sang "Deutschland Uber Alles." Four hours later another foreign baker, George Michel of France, propelled his thick bulk along the same last mile. A hand flashlight played on the tricolor of France, fluttering from his pilot boat. As he hit the stone steps he went limp, his head down as though praying or crying. Then he grinned and was hauled...
...great to be here." With these words the flight for the $25,000 prize offered by James D. Dole, "pineapple king," ended at Wheeler Field, Honolulu. Arthur C. Goebel stepped out of his plane, the Woolaroc, and waved to 30,003 assembled under the clear blue Hawaiian sky. The small figure of a woman raced up to him, exclaiming: "God bless you, where is Martin?" She was Mrs. Martin Jensen, wife of a pilot in the flight. Two hours later Martin Jensen swung his Aloha down from Hawaiian sky, jumped out, into the arms of Mrs. Martin...
...Sky Signs. "You are over DULUTH." This type of sky sign was recommended by Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover in a letter to all state governors. He favored marking airways, painting the city's name in huge letters on the tops of highest buildings. Skeptics grumbled. Grumbling they asked if sky scenery must be defaced like roadway scenery by billboards...
...these others in relations of their own-a frustrate music merchant; a tropical trollop; a ripe Jew; a psychic; a chess-player; a man with a glass eye. Each person is treated as a universe unto himself, in the vaster but no more inscrutable universe of sea and sky now and then visible over the rail or through a porthole...