Word: fogged
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...heavy fog hung over Kansas fields near Emporia one morning last week as Edward Baker, farm boy of Bazaar, set forth to feed his cattle. Along about ten o'clock he heard an explosion, then a crash. Soon afterward, in a nearby pasture, Edward Baker came upon the flaming carcass of a ten passenger Fokker of the Transcontinental & Western Air line. Its eight occupants lay dead or dying...
...everything. An orchestra plays; the passengers indulge in an intricate ballet and song while ships officers and winches look on in unmoved silence. The usual almost happens then the news of a financial panic makes everything end up as it should. The steamer and its passengers arrive in a fog at Southampton...
...Director Tod Browning, who had charge of the best Lon Chaney pictures, has a talent for creating macabre atmosphere by the use of "interiors." He is a director who never, if he can help it, photographs a scene out of doors and then only at night or in a fog. Bram Stoker's famous novel about a vampire who survives hundreds of years after his death by drinking human blood and who is killed at last by a professor who drives a stake through his heart as he lies in his coffin provides ideal material for Browning...
...have seen his palette," wrote his friend and compatriot by birth, Andre Kormendi, last month. "It had almost no colors. It was like a strip of fog. . . . One saw tiny dabs of Neapolitan yellow, a little blue and green, but all of it melted into the black-white-grey which covered his palette softly as the dusk covered his studio...
Like telephone poles along a highway, the dots and dashes of radio-beacons guide a pilot along U. S. airways. But if he wanders off the route in fog, storm or darkness, a pilot may find himself off the line of the beckoning signals just when he needs them most. Last week was brought forth a device by which the flyer, wherever he be, will be able to orient himself upon the nearest commercial broadcasting station...