Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best qualifies for the position of U. S. Poet? New England's Ralph Waldo Emerson and Long Island's Walt Whitman are doubtless the foremost candidates, with a few critics ranking California's Robinson Jeffers ahead of either. Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson are other candidates from New England. Carl Sandburg is the Midwest's best voice. Vachel Lindsay catches the whole jingle of American speech, and Stephen Vincent Benet caught last year's Pulitzer Prize. Last week at Columbia University a candidate for U. S. Poet was proposed...
Sued for Divorce. Witherbee Black, president of Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham Inc. (Manhattan jewelers); by Mrs. Black. Grounds: desertion...
...evening sun dimmed over Admiral Byrd's Little America camp a day last week. Most of the expedition's 42 men were in their tents. A few were outdoors strolling nervously about their ready-packed gear and baggage. A smoke of frost was on the harbor, where their bark, the City of New York, was soon to arrive, to take them away from their 13 months and 25 days of bleakness. Talk was scant...
Cleopatra's Needle, famed Egyptian obelisk in Manhattan's Central Park, suffers considerably from the frost. The late Art Dealer George Jean Demotte, who presented many ancient sculptures to U. S. museums, always advised that they be kept indoors although in their original state they may have adorned European exteriors...
...this time to Count Gosta Morner. He lasted six weeks. The Earl of Northesk (of Vanities Jessica Brown fame) and Count de Janze were later also-rans. Someone, said to be prominent in the automobile business, lately gave her the very biggest diamond she could find at Black, Starr & Frost's?a 127-carat stone called the largest perfect diamond in the world...