Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most valuable stamp in the world. Should some one find, on an old letter, a big stamp with an octagon marked within its four corners, and a square inside the octagon, and in the square a schooner, full-rigged, with "British" in the sky above it and "Guiana" in the sea beneath, then the value of Mr. Hind's stamp would be lessened, for collectors would know that there were two such stamps in the world...
...Night (Laura La Plante). Out of a clear sky comes a call for Frances Norcross to impersonate abducted actress Daphne Dix. Frances' sweetheart, the press, Daphne's husband, are all very much befuddled, to the moderate glee of the audience. Eventually everything clears up, leaving Frances and her fiance the stronger against matrimonial bugaboos by $1,000. Tully Marshall, mouth full of popcorn, represents the press...
...elements, that rain drops fell, that breezes blew--all this the Floridians admit. But of disaster they will have naught. Photographs, presumably taken after the tempest, are spread over the country, and they show scenes in a peaceful southern clime, with slightly battered palms outlined gracefully against the sky...
...which the slow movement and the Allegro are sung everywhere. Below that is a long, groaning melody, thrown out by the clarinet, which is a novel contrast. Following the overture are two Debussy Nocturnes, "Nuages" and "Fetes." The composer explains the former as "The unchangeable appearance of the sky, with the slow and solemn march of clouds dissolving in a gray agony tinted with white." The latter is described as "Rhythm dancing in the atmosphere with bursts of brusque light. There is also the episode of a procession (a dazzling and wholly idealistic vision) passing through the festival and blended...
...storm in the sky mounts, but is not yet heard...