Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia actually it takes place somewhere on the border land between reality and unreality. It is a will-o'-the wisp sort of a play eluding our grasp just at the moment we attempt to put our finger on it. It is like the moon on a mackerel-sky with the white clouds rushing over it, now hiding it completely, now showing it to us through a transparent wraith-like veil, now and then revealing it to us in its full opalescent splendor. The keynote of unworldliness, of "transcendental buffoonery" as Schlezel called it, is struck in the very opening...
...roads on the Virginia side of the Potomac. It consisted of the President and Mrs. Coolidge, Secretary of War Davis, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Major General Fox Conner, Acting Chief of Staff of the Army, and Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations. Suddenly the morning sky was riven by the 21-gun presidential salute from an artillery battery at Fort Myer. Just before 11 a.m. the party entered the gates of Arlington Cemetery and proceeded on foot to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The President advanced flanked...
Last Saturday, with a tooth in the wind and a squint in the sky, saw the yellow moon of football ripening to the full...
...sky blue paint which has just made its appearance on the dial on the walls of Massachusetts Hall and under the eaves of Holden Chapel, startling as it seems to passersby on Massachusetts Avenue, is in reality no innovation but a return to the color scheme originally employed when the buildings were first constructed two centuries...
...noonday clanguors wrack the sky...