Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devaluation, Premier van Zeeland, having first closed all exchanges, was telling the Belgian Chamber and Senate that he planned to devalue the belga by a maximum of 30% if other nations will join Belgium in an international monetary stabilization pact. If they will not, then the bright blue sky is Premier van Zeeland's devaluation limit...
...sight of Greenland's icy mountains Mrs. Owen found herself "struggling with the impulse toward tears." Looking hard at the icebergs gave her strength to face things: "I know I shall fear neither death nor living so much when I know that this great beauty of mountain and sky and sea lies wrapped in eternal silence through unbroken spans of years-that across its dreaming face will be drawn veils of color, rose at dawn, gold at midday, blue at twilight, day and night, year after year, century following century...
...those on the blue earth last week could see of Pilot Collins was a whizzing speck, shooting headlong down out of the sky. The speck got bigger. Suddenly a wing fluttered loose from his plane and drifted away. Then the whole ship seemed to break up in midair. The motor tore out, plunged into the middle of a street. The wing landed in a field half a mile away. Spinning wildly, the fuselage fell among the tombstones of Pinelawn Cemetery...
Oldtime Nemo-lovers, however, will miss the gentle conception of Slumberland. Instead of giving Nemo's adventures the honest simplicity of a child's dreams, Winsor Jr. has compromised with the "Buck Rogers" school of Jules Verne adventure. Thus the new series has Nemo accidentally shot sky-high from a circus cannon, takes him toward "another planet" where propeller-driven men called "gyro-scouts" broadcast news of his approach from their radio helmets. Flip & Impie fly out to meet him in an airplane...
...Observe this long-nosed personage with night-life in his narrowed eyes, eyes that have wept for the broken Virgin, eyes that have faced battle, caressed and lusted, heavy with cupidity, glazed with surfeit, once expectant as the sky in May. . . . He is a type of Frenchman not yet extinct nor likely to be extinct for centuries." So does Historian Francis Hackett introduce his latest hero, Francis I. Author Hackett's 448-page tome is compendious and scholarly but he does not believe that "history should be blonde-proof"; not simply dignified names and dates but Francis' blondes...