Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kickin' a Hole in the Sky and Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love (Columbia)?Best tunes from the cinema Be Yourself, played by the Ipana (Toothpaste) Troubadours...
...Oklahoma City last week, housewives took clothes in from lines, shut their windows. Industrial plants warned their firemen to be ready to bank furnaces on a moment's notice. In outlying towns men looked into the sky and cursed when a change of wind suddenly brought a downpour of fine-blown...
Little flurries of snow fell last week in Benton Harbor, Mich. Under the leaden sky a melancholy old lady picked up all her belongings and traipsed a half-mile to a new home. She was "Queen" Mary Purnell, wife of the late "King" Benjamin Purnell, self-proclaimed Messiah, founder of the famed, bewhiskered religious cult called House of David...
...likes to spin yarns to little girls about moonlight, spiders, rats, elephants; of Yonder the Yinder, "a long spike of a boy with a burning bean for a head, and his eyes full of spears, spads and spitches;" about the man with long arms who held up the sky when it was falling but took his time about it. (Said he: "Hurry isn't for me. Hurry is no worry of mine.") The conversation is irrelevant and entertaining, the kind of children's cross questions and crooked answers sometimes overheard by invisible adult ears...
Last week the flyer thus described in his official citation for the Victoria Cross- Lieut.-Col. William George Barker, second-ranking Canadian Air Force ace-ascended again, at Rockcliffe Airdrome, Ottawa. Instead of enemies aloft he had an empty sky. Below were Government officials come to watch him put a new Fairchild biplane (he was Fairchild's Canadian chief) through test antics. Flying fast but low, he put his ship into a loop, over-taxed its ability at the top, could not get out of the spin that followed. So ended Col. William G. Barker, V. C., after having...