Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keen excitement and strains of Yale and Harvard football songs reach the ear from all quarters. The only anxiety which is in evidence is over the weather situation, as rooters for both sides have absolute confidence in the powers of their respective teams. Eyes are constantly turned toward the sky where a misty moon gives some hope for a line day tomorrow...
...nine-by-twelve-foot canvas of five loosely sketched, bright pink nudes swinging in a wild dance across emerald green grass under a vivid blue sky hung last week on the walls of Manhattan Art Dealer Pierre Matisse, flanked by a group of photographs and autograph letters. Bewildering to the cautious mind, the canvas was of first importance to the U. S. art world for it was a full-size preliminary sketch for La Danse, the most famed mural decoration that Dealer Matisse's father, bearded Henri Matisse, ever did. Few U. S. art lovers have ever seen...
Observatory star-gazers along with others throughout the world last night trained their telescopes and sky-cameras on the heavens' latest mystery--a peculiar object in the constellation Cetus...
...murmur of traffic and a muffled clatter of Halloween high jinks floated up one evening last week to the roof of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel. Searchlights on top of nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table...
When Landon is elected, the College will be informed of the event by the appearance of a meteor in the western sky describing an are from south to north, following which an American flag will descend. If Roosevelt should win, the flag will be thrown away...