Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentence, ends with the interview in her girlhood that lost her her lover. This reversal of the time sequence has a natural advantage of giving the story a marked crescendo. With his second book, Author Coxe has come a long stride forward since his first novel (Passage to the Sky). First Love and Last is a cleanly written, intelligent, first-rate...
...help them pull up from the water. The ships of 10-F huge Consolidated sesqui-planes with 100-ft. wingspread and twin Wright Cyclone engines, were each loaded to the gunwales. After a half hour's fruitless taxiing over glassy water Plane No. 4 hoisted herself into the sky. Thirty minutes later the flagplane piloted by Commander McGinnis got off. For nearly two hours they circled over the bay while the remaining four charged up & down and smaller planes taxied around to kick up a swell. Finally a shout went up from the bridge...
...hand. Dis sonances pile on dissonances, savagely conflict and swirl away into new combinations. Stage honors went not to any performer but to Donald M. Oenslager, who made a highly effective setting out of castle walls, a great flight of steps and two cypress trees standing against an Oriental sky...
...Lauro de Basis was a convinced idealist," said Salvemini. "He sought to convince King Emmanuel to liberate Italy from Mussolini. One day in October, 1931, he flew over Rome to deluge the city with anti-fascist leaflets. After he sailed into the Roman sky that night he was never heard from again...
Shawn O'Phelan, as even those who know no Irish may pronounce Sean OTaolain's Gaelic name, is a new star in Erin's sky. Known to only a few U. S. readers by a book of short stories (Midsummer Night Madness), he should soon, if A Nest of Simple Folk gets the audience it deserves, be visible throughout at least one hemisphere. This big novel of classic Irish types is set firmly in the oldfashioned, solid novel tradition, earmarked neither by the violent realism nor the violent mysticism of modern Ireland's civil...