Word: clouds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...your comfort that the chief cure for it is to interest yourself, to lose yourself, in some issue not personal to yourself--in another man's trouble or, preferably, another man's joy. But if the dark hour does not vanish, as sometimes it doesn't; if the black cloud will not lift, as sometimes it will not; let me tell you again for your comfort that there are many liars in the world, but there are no liars like your own sensations. The despair and the horror mean nothing, because there is for you nothing irremediable, nothing ineffaceable, nothing...
...toward the automobile, but writers and artists must still be under the depressing effects of the mid-years, for there is a failure to catch the joys and humors of the horse-less age. The front page, it is true represents Lampy's Trio speeding away from the dusty cloud which spells "gloom," and the centre-place tries to show that the automobile has certain pleasures on the side; there is still a chance, however, for the real humorist of the automobile to show us the conflict between the irate pedestrian and horseman who madly curses all drivers of cars...
...strictly speaking, the "show" that brings beggars "astraddle of the guys what's got the dough." I question also whether the dialect is used quite consistently throughout. In any case, it seems regrettable that the phrase "bunched up" should occur twice in fourteen lines. E.E. Hunt's sonnet, "Cloud-land," is compact and musical, and induces in the reader a mood as sympathetic as the writer's with a rustic scene in the mountains. I could wish there were less alliteration, and a less conspicuous contrast between the homeliness of "celebrate" and "move along," and the ornateness of "snow-jacinth...
...Flying Cloud," by M. Roberts...
...clock the University band took their places in front of the cheering section and began to play Harvard airs. Hardley a cloud was in the sky and the air was scarcely bracing enough for good football. The warm weather favored the lighter Yale team. A stiff southwest wind was blowing diagonally across the field...