Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Mrs. Aldwinkle was proud of Italy. The fauna, the climate, (was it not the best in the world?), the music, the mandolins of Sorrento, the bells of Capri?even the stars that tremoloed with tender, operatic passion in the black night-sky ?all belonged to her. She had bought them, it seemed, when she bought the palace of the Cybo Malaspina which perched-a splendid example of baroque architecture?on a hill above the little town of Vezza. Ah, Italy! The boot fitted...
...England and out over the Atlantic. In the west, conditions were not favorable for observations 1) because it took place very early in the morning, when the Sun could be seen but obliquely through a great quantity of the Earth's atmosphere and 2) because clouds blanketed the sky over the greater part of the country west of central New York. Eastern New York State and Connecticut had the best of the observing of the total eclipse, although a good portion of the Eastern part of the country had good atmospheric conditions for viewing the partial eclipse...
...sky was cloudy up to a few minutes before totality set in, but then cleared off beautifully. Miss Cannon, who was stationed at Vassar, reports the same excellent weather conditions. She comments especially on the conspicuous appearance of the shadow bands just before and just after totality, which wavered darkly over the snow. These shadow bands are weird meteorological phenomena about which we know very little...
...STREET OF THE EYE-Gerald Bullet-Boni Liveright ($2.00). Simmering, sizzling, boiling, gurgling, spitting, the fear of God bubbled like Hell's lava in the head of Bellingham; it drove him out of bed and across the arid plains of Hell under a sky monotonously grey except where the sun, a bloody red, like a huge socket from which the eye had been torn, stared sightlessly at him. In this story, the first and most powerful in the book, Mr. Gerald Bullet adeptly spins out mystification until it becomes mysticism. The Enchanted Moment tells how a certain gnome made...
...afternoon or, when November has turned the leaves wan, may carry a begrimed ball for endless gains; even so, he shall not come to honor. For the little fellows and their supporters will murmur among themselves. "That guy, how does he get in?" they will demand of the spring sky, of the autumn clouds. The Massee School's headmaster, should he hear them, would doubtless reply: "Why, that boy is a special student." "Student, yeah," the little ones will savagely rejoin. "A ringer, that's what he is! A ringer...