Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...base was known as the Enderta. Through the same telescope, when the clouds cleared, could be seen Alaji, another mountain about 30 miles further on. These two peaks were main pegs in Ethiopia's defense. At 8 a. m., with a round moon still high in the sky, operations started with a short advance all along the line. This was to be a white man's battle. Regulars and Blackshirts led the advance, with the native Askaris, on which Fascist de Bono had leaned so heavily last year, forming the reserve. It was also a gunner...
...Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. There he began experimenting with that deep luminous color with which he was later to win his popular renown. Not until he went to Paris did he learn the trick from copyists of Flemish and Italian primitives. A Maxfield Parrish sky starts with a wash of thin plaster on a prepared board, followed by a coat of pure ultramarine blue. Successive layers of transparent blue glazes are put on with such finicky care that no brush strokes are ever visible...
Whence comes this seeming prestige that vainglorious Lowell tower should blaze with incandescent light so many, many nights while Dunster, Adams, and Eliot towers carve but grey and humble silhouettes in the midnight sky? Whence comes the warrant for this lone, flamboyant panoply? Lowell House, is't not enough to curdle the bowels of the earth with the hellish bells...
January 14th. Lay long with great pleasure this morning and was glad at my heart to open my eyes on such a beautiful blue sky and to hear the happy voices of children already playing in the street below. And as I did turn towards the case ment I saw thereupon, in its winter garb of brownish cream-buff spots, a chattering Starling who did strut back and forth in most serious-like manner. And I did guess his errand. Indeed, little one, was my heart most wont to say, I, too, sense the difference. But all will be well...
...travel and write for himself, Moody and Harriet kept their friendship going by mail. His letters were intimate but literary, extremely publishable. They are not love-letters so much as polished exhortations; his emotions lie neatly pressed between these pages. Not Harriet's image but a night sky of frosty stars made him feel "again the sudden impalpable sweet pang, like a harp-string softly struck in the core of my being...