Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the gaiety was taken out of the French Capital by a sudden and unprecedented fall from the sky of what was graphically described as a "pea-soup...
...What every body is praying for now," continued Professor King, "is a clear day. A cloudy sky would spoil everything, though we would probably go through the motions of taking the pictures under any circumstances...
...large Tory majority. Uncertainty of policy, arising from the first advent to power of a new party, is dispersed, for the course of the Conservatives is well fixed by precedent and platform. Uncertainty of tenure is gone, for no fresh issues seem likely to lower on the clear sky of English politics. Altogether, Parliament has given up that gambling spirit of a few months ago for a staid and steady gait upon an unadventurous road...
Beneath a cloudless sky in the open-air National Stadium on the outskirts of Mexico City, the Executive Power of the United Mexican States passed from General Alvero Obregon to General Plutarco Elias Calles, peacefully elected by the Labor-Agrarian vote...
Dawn broke somewhat unpleasantly behind a cloudy sky of incontinent youth. Two young ladies found themselves abruptly young but no more ladies. One committed suicide on the fringes of a house party and the other lived and married the man she loved. A puritanical papa who objected most determinedly to these unfortunate adventures was argued down by his wife on the grounds that she, too, in the days of her youth had subdivided her virginity. She had made a good wife. Daughter would make a good wife...