Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sky Blue Life. An ugly, shy orphan youth with money falls into the hands of a barefoot carpenter with a devilish clever mania for astonishing people. The carpenter paints dragonfish on the youth's house and tries to marry him off to a wench with fat legs. Youth escapes carpenter at the expense of his reason, which later returns with a thud...
Only one cloud dimmed this otherwise clear sky, and this soon blew over. Owners of shorefront property are permitted to acquire title to lowlands in front of their holdings. Some of the interior representatives contended that such title should not automatically pass, hut should be acquired only from the state. Shorefront property holders have benefitted by millions through the present law, and for once they shivered slightly when the proposal was made to halt the present practise. But the proposed repeal was soon put into the discard by the triumphant clan of realtors; and Florida's record...
...high heaven and shook the windows of the church wherein burghers and visitors had gathered to hear the trombone choir and the local soloists deliver Bach's Christmas Oratorio, the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., lay still. Conductor Wolle raised his baton. A clap of thunder split the sky like a peasecod. Lightning assaulted the darkness through every shivering window, and the place seemed, for a moment, to be filled with whirling laughter, like the mirth of demons. Conductor Wolle brought down his baton with the air of a man casting out a devil. The festival began...
...Stars and Stripes ForeverSousa 2. Overture to "Poet and Peasant" 3. American Patrol Meacham 4. Suite from "Carmen" Bixet a. Aragonaise b. Intermezzo, Act 3 c. Prelude to Act 1 5. American Fantasy Herbert 6. Largo Handel Solo Violin, Harp, Organ and strings 7. From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water Cadmau-Jacchis 8. Selection, "Rose Marie" Frimi-Stothart 9. Ouverture Solonelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky 10. Walts, "Gold and Silver" Lehar 11. Pomp and Circumstance Eigar
...London Season began under a cloudless sky with two brilliant courts at Buckingham Palace, and will end after four days' racing at Ascot (June...