Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smell of smoke drifts by on the summer wind. A little dog sniffs about in the ashes to salvage a hastily remembered bone and walls out as his nose strikes live coals. On the other side of the lake hidden in the timber there is a fire stabbing the sky. Before it sit a few solemn figures nodding gently to themselves thinking or casually dozing in the heat. Around them a ring of naked, glistening figures are cast against the sky in studied crouches. The American Indian has raised the old Hob again...
Early in Thanksgiving week the bright New Mexican sky suddenly darkened. The white men's thermometers fell far below Zero. Before nightfall snow had banked five ft. high across the down trails from Cerro Alto and Santa Rita mesas, where the nutters were camped. Within a few days the Indians' small supplies were exhausted. Hungry ponies hunched head-to-head in the icy blast. Families crouched over small fires or cowered in the protection of their thin canvas wagon tops. It was decided that as many as possible should take the weakened ponies down to the Zuni settlement...
Chamberlin v. Dragon, Flying passengers over Brooklyn, Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin sighted a monster yellow-&-black dragon bobbing crazily about in the sky-one of the helium-filled balloons released from the annual Thanksgiving Day parade of R. H. Macy & Co. Pilot Chamberlin dived at the dragon, sheared off its head with his wingtip, carried it back to the field on his wing. Next day he received from Macy's one of the $25 rewards offered for the recovery of each monster...
...Fogg Art Museum, hanging in a position of considerable importance is a picture of a "Madonna and Child" from the school of Giovanni Bellini. The Madonna wears a red gown, brilliant blue mantle, and luminous silvery white hood. The drapery of the background is bright yellow green. The sky on the left is pale blue, and the rocks neutral brown. The parapet is a dark red brown; the book is red. On the parapet is the signature: Ioannes Bellinvs...
...protecting buns, with a head that rises to a point and sinks to chinlessness, Margaret Kennedy's face is not as attractive as her writing; but you can tell by her eyes that she is intelligent, humorous, keen. Other books: The Ladies of Lyndon, A Long Weekend, Red Sky at Morning, The Fool of the Family...