Word: cloudly
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...grave apprehensions about sending them there. Having sought in vain for another theme which would capitalize the furor he had made, the author has gone back to the adventures of the wild Cynthia and the experimentative Carl Peters, whom readers will recall as leaving the campus under rather a cloud. In the new book they are presented five years after...
Conspicuous among the new body lines were those of Hudson-Essex which have eliminated the angles on hood and radiator; on the Reo Flying Cloud which is a lower hung and much "snappier" revision of previous Reos; in Stutz which exhibited a fabric body...
...unpleasing flapper heroine--lends a back-ground and flavor not to be found in the ordinary detective thriller. The past, the primitive past, with its mysteries and festivals that one feels are perhaps after all part of man, hangs over the book, a dark and rather compelling cloud...
...wire string snored in the sky. Stretched across heaven, above the mudflats of the airdrome at Norfolk, the string of some invisible instrument threw down its drone to the ground. A seaplane tipped out of a cloud. The singing stretched before and behind it like a wire. In the plane Major Mario de Bernardi of Italy moved through a last kilometre of air. He had won the Schneider Cup race. His speed, unprecedented, was 246.496 miles an hour...
...Squall. The best stage storm of the season disrupts the serene domesticity of a Spanish household. From under the black clouds, into a country home, scurries a gipsy girl, fleeing from her man with a whip. The ladies of the household take her under their protection-foolishly, because the gipsy has more sex appeal than all the rest of the family put together. Within one year (intermission) she seduces the manservant, the son and the master of the house. And she does these things in the big parlor hall that gives on every room in the house. The ladies...