Word: clouding
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...last week aboard the lighter Charlie White to greet James John Walker. The onetime (1925-32) Mayor of New York was returning to his native city after three years of self-exile in Europe. A pall of dirty fog overhung the harbor. But it did not compare with the cloud which hung over Mr. Walker's head when he resigned his job and sailed away from New York in 1932 in disgrace, unwilling to face out removal charges before Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (TIME, Sept. 12, 1932 et ante...
...agency of the government, the Supreme Court, to the changing conditions of American social and economic life. Thus, intelligent opposition to the current administration should be based on a critical examination of specific issues in the light of relative constitutional principles. Attempts to dramatize the Constitution merely cloud the fundamental issues at stake and substitute for an intellectual approach to the problem, the impassioned appeal of the demagogue...
...ragged. For its first home-grown Ring, the San Francisco Opera is spending $80,000, importing such peerless Wagnerians as Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Baritone Friedrich Schorr. Some $40,000 has been invested in scenery alone. There is a horrible, life-like dragon and a special new cloud machine which projects photographs of actual clouds on the backdrop...
...that time, Dr. Silpher saw a projection, 300 miles in length, the highest point of which extended upwards into the atmosphere some 17 miles. The body was tawny in color. That a cloud could rise so high in such a rarified atmosphere seemed unlikely. The explanation for it was that it was probably a cloud of dust swept from the arid regions of the temperate zone. Recent dust clouds in the middle west of America have reached vastly larger proportions...
...near midnight, and the Vagabond climbed his old Tower and this time by some queer premonition drew the ladder after him. The old woman had left a fire to welcome the fellow; the candies had burned their life away. Things were different tonight; as if some ominous cloud had set about the Tower. The moon shone into the chamber in a doubtful, suspicious manner. All kinds of weird shapes quivered on the wall. And now there struck a deep-booming, yawning bell. Twelve o'clock...