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THIS is what is known to trade and criticism as an Irish novel," which means that the prose style is "poetic," that the narrative is threaded with "Irish mysticism," and that the here is a melancholy follow, walking in twilight and yellow fog, and meditating on old, unhappy far-off things. There is a thin and rather outre plot, not much narrative, but considerable dissection of mood and temperament...
Flying home to California from a conference with President-elect Roosevelt, William Gibbs McAdoo was forced down at New Orleans by fog. Said he: "Republicans have had the milking teat of the cow too long. We're going to change that...
Current influenza is much milder than the devastating disease of 1918. Epidemiologists have been unable to discern rhythm or reason to these surges. In England the Press, having noted an unseasonable amount of rain, fog and snow over North Europe, blames raw weather...
...industries whose wealth they envy, Technocracy is the hope of a new economic deal. To I. W. W.'s. with whom Howard Scott was once associated, Technocracy is a new lever against Capitalism. Each man sees in Technocracy what he wishes for and Howard Scott, Technocracy's spokesman, breathes fog upon their mirrors...
...10½ hours, making the flight from Lympne, on the Kent coast, in 4 days, 7 hr. It was an amazing exhibition of stamina. Flying a light Puss Moth named The Desert Cloud she landed only four times, caught three naps, the longest being two hours. She battled with fog over the English Channel, a near-gale over the Mediterranean, sandstorms over the Sahara, torrential rains in Portugese West Africa. At Benguela she was forced down by low oil pressure into a "sea of mud." With improvised tools she made repairs, flew on, thought to powder her nose while crossing Table...