Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charged with thunder and no man can tell when the first bolt of lightning will flash across the Mexican political sky, now dark with clouds...
...ideal day,--sun and a blue sky,--for spectators and players at the University-Dartmouth football encounter this afternoon in the Stadium, was the official prediction of the Blue Hills Observatory at a late hour last night. The Observatory, which is a part of the University, and the most accurate forecaster of weather in the vicinity of Boston, went so far as to say that yesterday's cumulous clouds, which cut off the sun's rays, and which are caused by the cooling of the upper strata of air, would probably be absent today. As for a storm,--nearly...
...communicated by so-called automatic writing, the average grownup hesitates, comments McFee. Yet if one knows, the road from Colchester to Mersea where the whole coast at high tide is compacted of lonely islands, "of a quiet loveliness in summer with salt winds driving thick white clouds athwart a sky of palest azure," he has come close to England...
CHILDREN OF THE MOON?Magnificently morbid demonstration of the dramatic values of insanity. The second act is the severest emotional test of the year. RAIN?Jeanne Eagels in the highly sexed South Seas. Rather like a vigorous nightmare, with the sky dripping steadily on the tin roof overhead...
Died. Captain Derek A. Shepper-son, 26, Royal Flying Corps veteran (son of Claude Shepperson, R. A., Punch artist), who lately advertised Lucky Strike cigarettes by writing their name in smoke against the sky, at Blackwood Field, near Nashville, Tenn. His plane collided with a tree as he landed after a demon-station of skywriting...