Word: float
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...long time since the Vagabond has allowed himself to slip into one of those moods in which he contents himself with watching the smoke float ceilingwards. Sentimentalism is rather apt to get the upper hand at such moments and it is all too easy for an old fellow to become roseate. So the Vagabond has kept busy with his lectures and his books and left sessions with a pipe to Old Mother Advocate who has been addicted to such whims these many years...
...Francisco last week shivers of delight scooted up and down many a small spine. In open-mouthed wonder children watched snowy-white angels float down from the sky; an old witch ride madly astride her broomstick, pausing only to tickle the nose of a raggedy boy waiting to be fattened and baked into gingerbread. The climax came when his yellow-haired sister saved him with the wave of a magic juniper-branch and a hocus-pocus formula, when together they pushed the witch into the oven stoked for them. For children no moment of the performance approaches this supreme...
...There is no water fit to drink. The water works are demolished, the river is a sea of mud and the dead are still uncounted. Floods have washed out the newly buried dead in the cemeteries and coffins float around like corks. . . . Concrete cisterns are being used as funeral pyres, cremating as many as fifty bodies at a time. Even at a distance of ten miles . . . it was apparent that bodies were being burned. When we landed we could see wagons pass by loaded with dead. The drivers would stop and curse and cry: 'More dead, more dead...
...most active part of this fleet, are not only permanently stationed in China, most of them were built in China.† Water in the Siang-Kiang river was so low last week that destroyers could not navigate it. To rescue U. S. citizens the flatdecked little Palos which can float wherever it is three feet deep, nosed its way over the sandbars to Changsha. Bandit bullets ricocheted off her armored deck house, wounded five U. S. seamen. Loaded with refugees, the Palos dropped down stream again...
...ceiling the first Kent mural, but the theatre's proprietors declare that it is the largest single canvas in the world-6,400 sq. ft. in area, almost three times the size of Tintoretto's "Paradise" walls in the Palace of the Doges.* Pale monumental figures float upon it among brilliant clouds and stars. while a vivid comet's tail streaks across from projection box to screen. Artist Kent, assisted by Jo Mielziner and ten others, worked five months on the canvas...