Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after spending six months in Hollywood doing nothing, Pascal left in disgust. He arrived in London and out of a clear sky called Playwright Shaw, whom he had never met. Pascal said he wanted to produce Shaw's plays...
...Heaving, racked, volcanic, the play belches the hot subterranean lava of its characters' anger, helplessness, pain. It draws back their skin to leave every nerve exposed. In its best scenes Rocket to the Moon is blisteringly real, its dialogue forks and spits like lightning from a scornful sky...
...notes (of the victrola) swelled, the dull aurora on the horizon pulsed and quickened and draped itself into arches and fanning beams which reached across the sky until at my zenith the display attained its crescendo. The music and the night became one; and I told myself that all beauty was akin and sprang from the same substance...
Since the earth was directly between the sun and moon, the sun had actually set when the moon rose. But atmospheric refraction raises the sun's apparent position in the sky by more than one of its diameters. Thus for six minutes after the eclipsed moon rose the sun's image remained above the western horizon. This was the first time the Atlantic seaboard had seen such a thing in the 20th Century, although it was visible elsewhere in the U. S. in 1920, twice...
...bellied, black-hulled, matter-of-fact ships with extravagantly alliterative names (examples: Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion). Most have proud six-foot letters on their hulls - AMERICAN EXPORT LINES. Their fore-and after-kingposts, surrounded by a cluster of loading booms like umbrella ribs, point ambitiously to the sky. For two years, American Export's President William H. Coverdale has also been pointing ambitiously skyward: he wants to start an airline to the Mediterranean and Black Seas...