Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liberals of the Court. He has never been known as an old fogy. He is no stickler over small technicalities, not one to place the tradition of the law above the majesty of justice. He has written: "Law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky." With the influx of liberal members to the Court in recent years and his contributions to jurisprudence, he has been more and more recognized in the law schools not only of this country but of England. Last fall Chief Justice Taft remarked: "Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes continues to honor the Supreme Court...
...rather loose, often eccentric style, paints a delightful picture of a far from delightful picture of a far from delightful existence in the Black Valley. Here East meets West with as little mutual comprehension as Mr. Foster found in India. The pointed spire of the Compound Church pricks a sky too old to mind such petty prodding, and the Reverend Alurid Wilberforce's proselyting pricks even less effectively the soverign sufficiency of heathenism and of life. Tragedy grimaces from the Inland Sea, tragedy, modified at intervals, by humor, satiric, satisfying. And when one sees the figure of the old preacher...
...American life reduces itself essentially to violent alternations of Work and Play"?so says John Alden Carpenter, U. S. composer; so does he depict it in his new ballet, Skyscrapers, given its premiére last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Great steel skeletons point into the sky; steel-colored men, monotonously alike, pour life into them . . . Any Coney Island, with its merry-go-rounds, its sideshows, girls, sailors, street-cleaners, sandwich men, time clocks . . . No story, says Mr. Carpenter, just American life?Work and Play?"each with its own peculiar and distinctive rhythmic character"?American life...
...once through the picture does one feel that the wind-machines, the smoke-bombs, and the Kleig lights are lurking just around the corner. The sky has an odd opaque quality, unknown to this climate. The shallow waters shimmer with reflections from the clean sands below, and the proas of the natives sweep through the surf, like birds skimming the clouds. The cocoanut trees wave to and from against a high sky-line. No tricks, no artifice, no sham appears in "Moana", but only the peaceful glory of the South Seas...
...months' work all but the motor. He built again, flew at exhibitions, paid off the mortgage. He learned to loop the loop before most U. S. flyers. Soon fleecy streamers of smoke were seen high over cities, spelling out trademarks for advertisers. The Fort Wayne boy had invented "sky-writing." He fell in love, staged the first "air elopement," crashed near Hillsdale, Mich., and was married in a hospital...