Word: mist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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10th. Lord, these little birds! How early they do rise and chirp and with them all the Tower. So I up too, and awhile to watch the River which so early in the morning is covered with golden mist as beautiful as ever I did sec. Whereupon, very serious, I to read my speech which is cloquent, but I am no great speaker and why I did enter this contest I do not know. "Charm us, orator, till the lion look no longer than the cat!" Fiddlesticks! Already there be too much false charming and not enough truth. But Plato...
...received the biggest minority vote in history. As a probable indication of the way his thoughts are tending, it is not out of order to inspect his flattering mention of Cleveland-the only president to make a come-back after being defeated. Certainly this much rises out of the mist of Republican politics-Hoover recently has become much stronger. In the national convention he will quite possibly have the largest following. Weighed conservatively, his influence in the choice of candidates will be tremendous. Finally, whether speaking for himself, or for some other candidate, he will be a powerful vote-getter...
...elaborately worked sketch for the last was in the Parrish show last week. All the other pictures were new but painted in the old manner: pink rocks in a blue mist, spinach-green trees in a theatrical amber light, all ticked out in the most minute detail. True to his promise five years ago to paint no more nude girls on rocks, there are no figure studies in the present exhibition...
...many places by the "little rains," wheels spinning impotently in sticky red mud. Sodden and soaked Italian bombing planes could not get off the ground. Only light Italian ships were able to fly in pursuit of non-existent Ethiopian planes or to scout for Ethiopians invisible beneath the mist...
...preface to Bligh after the mutiny. Bligh on duty and in action, cursing his loyal sailors from the stern of the open boat, riding the tiller in mountainous seas, slitting the neck of a seabird for a sick sailor and finally, as the gulls rise out of the sea mist, croaking through dried lips the one word, "Timor...