Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...offstage crockery crash which annually opens the Gridiron Club's dinner was explained this time as: "That's the American people vindicating Mr. Hoover at the polls." General fun-making included a song: "Oh, the moon's behind a cloud along the Wabash, for the Democrats are making all the hay; in the sycamores the G. O. P. is hiding, on the banks of the Wabash hell's to pay." President Hoover, present as No. 1 guest as usual, as usual addressed his news-gathering hosts, as usual eased his feelings in reply to their horse...
...Font and his aides saw the newspaper story, rushed to the Chanin Building before even the Pan American office force had arrived, waited in an agitated huddle. President Trippe placated them, put in a hurry call for Technical Adviser Charles Augustus Lindbergh to take them to luncheon at the Cloud Club on the 66th floor of the Chrysler Building across the street. Then he telephoned Second Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover in Washington, requesting that the official confirmation of the story be sure to state that "Aeropostale probably would be interested" in the trans-atlantic project. Mr. Glover also...
Convinced that President Hoover's unwillingness was due to the cloud of political disrepute over Harding's name, the association unanimously voted to postpone all its dedication indefinitely. Up rose at the meeting Harry Micajah Daugherty, Harding's Attorney General, his great & good friend, whose loyalty has never flagged, to declare...
Both Miss Alexander and Mr. Williams do their utmost for the piece, but a composite ghost it still remains. Brown Buddies. The opinion that Bill Robinson, "The Dark Cloud of Joy," is the world's greatest tap-dancer, announced at a recent convention of the American Association of Dance Masters (TIME, Sept. 8), is shared by many. For more than 30 years he pranced around Benjamin Franklin Keith's vaudeville circuit. Two years ago he entered musi-comedy with an appearance in Blackbirds of 1928. If he was not the first man to clog up and down...
...Washington, D.C. last week, firemen answered an alarm at the Washington Cathedral, discovered that what Edwin N. Lewis of the Cathedral staff had thought was a cloud of smoke around the 225 ft. spire was a great swarm of gnats...