Word: sky
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...foreign ..." Vag checked himself. He wouldn't think about that. The hand of death had lain heavily on France, but there were parts it had not touched, parts where there were laughter and bright lights and crowded busses, parts where people danced all through the night and the sky was pink from the neon below...
...Sky...
Sirs: Your facility in answering (TIME, Sept. 19) H. A. Washington's query concerning the Communists' use of "pantywaist," prompts me to ask for similar information concerning another term that seems to have become a fad among political commentators, namely, "pie in the sky...
...sky" comes from a popular I.W.W. song, The Preacher and the Slaves: . . . Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie, in the sky, When you die- It's a lie! The song, written by Joe Hill (executed for murder in 1915) and sung to the tune of In the Sweet Bye and Bye, was intended to counteract Salvation Army propaganda, reflects orthodox radical agnosticism...
...Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered, Doric dignity. A huge dead tree is fallen, uprooted, in front of it. Full silvery sunlight etches the tree, its roots and the moss plumes hanging from an upright branch. In the sky there is only one cloud, feathery like the moss...