Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into bad showman's luck. When he called his followers to order in the open air amphitheatre of the Iowa State Fair Grounds, they equaled only a fraction of the 18,000 people who were in Des Moines that day to see the 26th annual Drake Relays The sky was dark and a chill April wind whistling past the microphones moaned like muted Bronx cheers through the amplifiers. Gone was Milo Reno's oldtime fire. He read his speech in a hurried monotone, anxious to get through before Huey Long's arrival distracted everyone's attention...
...climbed higher in the sky, his 30 minutes were up, but De Boe kept on talking. "And you people up here in Livingston County. I'm glad I'm not going to have this dirt in my face. I'm going to sleep in McCracken County. A man can get justice there...
...unknown star on the fringe of the constellation Hercules, far below the range of naked-eye visibility, was observed in the midst of a flaring explosion which in nine days increased the intensity of its radiation 200,000 times and placed it among the twelve brightest stars in the sky (TIME Dec 31). Only last fortnight did Nova Herculis 1934, on the downgrade to its onetime obscurity, become again too dim to be seen without a telescope. Astronomers do not know why occasional stars blow up, venture only the vaguest guesses. But in recent years no less than 65 novae...
Gerhart Hauptmann, by Edward J. Steichen, probably the greatest photographer in the U. S. Photographer Steichen posed the great German playwright against an artificial starlit sky, made him look more like the elder Goethe than usual...
...beating the air. Metaphors meant to be mighty come out merely mixed: "Soon the sun would be lost to sight, dragging its garden of colours behind it. Then the black clouds would cool away or sink like heavy anchors, and with the downing of the gaudy light, the sky would be peppered with blinking stars, gasping for life, weak from the tumult of the sun's going." Her violent story...