Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Richard Bird, British actor* (on Broadway, Havoc, Candida, The Fanatics); and his longtime friend Joyce Barbour, British actress (on Broadway, Havoc, Sky-High, Present Arms); in London...
...Significance. LeRoy MacLeod considers he has written no diatribe against preachers, says: "I hope no one will find in Three Steeples the profession of my beliefs. ... I have . . . painted a landscape and some people?men and women reading the earth under the quandary of the sky." A long novel, many-charactered, Three Steeples gives a broad, detailed, sympathetic picture of the U. S. Middle-Western rural scene. It is serious, ambitious, not as drab as it sounds...
...near. Who, but a few old fossils, ever thought otherwise? . . . All these notions . . . were matters of common knowledge, away back in the times of ancient Greece." Fort thinks that the earth is practically stationary, that it is an organism, and that scientifically unexplained phenomena like rain from a clear sky or frogs from a cloudy one are organic self-adjustments, reflex actions...
...Filippo Maria Guiseppe Giovanni, Duke of Apulia, cousin of the King, son of the Duke of Aosta, who commanded a squadron of pursuit planes. While the defeated Senussi, with their wives, children, oxen and asses fled like Joseph and Mary into Egypt, Duke Amadeo harried them mightily from the sky, raked them with blazing machine guns, whistling bombs. "Along the route," cabled a correspondent, "water wells at Matea, Bisciara, and elsewhere are filled with bodies...
...person who saw a meteor in the sky on Wednesday evening at about 7 o'clock is requested to communicate with officials of the Harvard Observatory, it was announced yesterday...