Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco last week shivers of delight scooted up and down many a small spine. In open-mouthed wonder children watched snowy-white angels float down from the sky; an old witch ride madly astride her broomstick, pausing only to tickle the nose of a raggedy boy waiting to be fattened and baked into gingerbread. The climax came when his yellow-haired sister saved him with the wave of a magic juniper-branch and a hocus-pocus formula, when together they pushed the witch into the oven stoked for them. For children no moment of the performance approaches this supreme...
...water view it gains in privacy and quiet. And the tower itself! What happy stroke of artistry decreed its color scheme? See it for the first time on a summer's day of blithe blue air, with white clouds flying, and you will think it a bit of sky caught by the wings and pinioned up aloft there white of cloud, blue of heaven, and gold of the gun. Hellenic, too; for these are the colors which everywhere in Greece fill the eye and flood the mind...
...hallways are nice things to have in a university, but good teaching is still a prime requisite to education, however much this simple truth may have been obscured by the sense of false security that comes of lots of steamshovels and bricklayers disturbing the contour of the Harvard sky-line...
...winter, spends summers at artistic MacDowell Colony (Petersboro, N. H.) where he writes most of his poetry. Shy, scholarly, academic, he is a 32nd degree bachelor, is famed as most reticent, most elusive, least known U. S. man of letters. Other books: Captain Craig, The Alan Against the Sky, Merlin, Lancelot, Roman Bartholow, The Man Who Died Twice, Tristram, Calender's House, Dionysus in Doubt...
Gasbag Derby. From Cleveland Airport one afternoon last week six gasbags cast off into a leaden sky for the 19th James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Late the next afternoon the two favorites, the U. S. Goodyear and Belgian entries were still aloft, fighting it out for the second leg of the third Bennett...