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...struck me most. ... It seemed a some-what dim white or pale grey. . . . It was not white, but alabastrian, semipellucid, showing an underlying rose colour. . . . in shadow . . . rosy purple to dim blue. The eyes . . . flamelike . . . a tender red. The hair . . . slate . . . sometimes intensely black . . . sometimes white as a noonday cloud...
...twice. In his book The Zeppelins, he reports, without boast or apology, that he could have destroyed London were that the German desire. He invented the device of concealing dirigible raiders by lowering a pilot in a steel basket on 1,000 feet or more of cable through a cloud bank, with binoculars and telephone to give bearings, observe bomb damage. He says the Kaiser ordered him to avoid hitting King Albert of Belgium, King George of England, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral or London's residential districts. He has commanded almost 100 dirigibles. For three years...
...advance through Belgium. "We" cross rivers, take towns, shoot rifles. Deep in France, shells displace bullets and flying shrapnel forces "us" to dig into the earth. Bang! rat-a-tat! whack! bang! "My" friend crawls under sheet. Showers of sparks on the ground, then Crash!?a dark brown cloud over the front line. There is a curious noise close by. Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication, an occasional stolen feast...
...White Cloud. Fantasy and symbolism, wherein 27 war orphans find their fathers all gold-clothed on a white cloud. Says a father: "Back home the village thinks that [war is] all bugles and flowers...
Gambler Marlow had been a friend of Gambler Arnold Rothstein, whose murder last fall (still unsolved) created a cloud of stories about the underworld entanglements of Tammany leaders (TIME, Dec. 24). Many a New York voter had begun to forget the Rothstein murder when the Marlow murder occurred. Grover Aloysius Whalen, the fastidious police chief who was inducted to quiet the Rothstein uproar, squared his handsomely tailored shoulders, sat up late seeking clues. His detectives swarmed spectacularly through the Broadway brightlight district making raids, seeking witnesses. Other detectives chased a trail leading to Boston. Said the Commissioner: "Actions speak louder...