Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cloud bursts?if in the coal trade and still more in other trades?there should be a difference of opinion leading to commercial strife, no man can prophesy the extent of the damage it will cause to the trade of the country as a whole...
...which sent him to Paris attached to the Peace Commission. In 1919 he went on a special mission to Russia, causing a diplomatic ruction of international proportions when, upon his return, he divulged various Allied attitudes toward the Soviet regime. He left the State Department under something of a cloud. In 1921 he accepted the post of "managing editor" of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Married, he abides in his native city of brotherly love...
...young and smiling faces a-top banjos which some said had been heard in Spokane stopped beaming at the bevy of upturned faces--the Pathe news of the Leviathan--and then Bebe the inimitable, the exquisite--the comedienne is off in a cloud of dust, traffic cops, contortionists--and who hasn't wanted to break a big vase--or be a million dollars out and five millions...
These questions strike home, in my own case. For three years, I was a technical unassimilable: I lived at home. But this year, I moved to college quarters. Am I now assimilated? Or must I pass the rest of my life under a cloud as threatening as it is vague...
...some years, in corollary to the trust-busting proclivities of President Roosevelt, the pseudo-monopolistic business of Swift & Co., of the Armour Co., and of the other large packers, lay under cloud in the public mind. True, they had corralled livestock, slaughtering and marketing control into few hands, had almost ruled the meat business of this country. Then came the War, during which the quintessence of centralized control over every commodity was the sine qua non of victory, and the U. S. Army Quartermaster Corps found its rationing problems simplified. General Knisgern, Zone Supply Officer, stationed at Chicago, was especially...