Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sundown one day last week the U. S. S. Akron cast off from her stub mast at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., floated silently and moodily into a cheerless sky. One after another the eight engines were started. Then Commander Frank C. McCord bent a course eastward to sea; the 70 officers and crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared...
...little more than an hour after taking off, the Akron was nosing above a cloud of fog northeast near Philadelphia. From 30 miles to the south lightning split the sky. In another hour it was crashing on all sides of the Akron, but she continued to ride steadily. By 11 p.m., the lashing of wind and rain became severe. When the executive officer...
...there was a witness. On the bridge of the German tanker Phœbus, butting the storm under ballast, stood Capt. Dalldorf, taking a turn himself on the second mate's midnight watch. Gazing upward at the ugly sky, he saw, to his astonishment, the flashing red & green lights of an airship...
...catches his brother's hands at the dizzy instant of pause before the backswing. Painter Curry liked second best the wise-eyed Riding Clown (Orrin Davenport) waiting for his turn in the ring in orange derby, tie and wig, his red putty nose outlined against a blue night sky. Critics last week admired Curry's feat (as difficult as the Passing Leap) of getting the circus' gaudy, pastel colors in oils. Circus action gave play to his potent, compact drawing, his flair for packing a lot of disorganized life into a close-knit composition...
...their pictures. Unlike Kansans, they like Curry, call his pictures "wonderful" despite a few little technical mistakes. The Codonas like the exact muscular timing of their Passing Leap. Baby Ruth likes the baby blue of her eyes against her light pink dress, the orange-red tent curtains and blue sky...