Word: gales
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...York City, a 56-mi. gale sang around the skyscrapers; knocked off the cover of a roof water tank showering a dozen women in the building's elevator; puffed out a truck's tarpaulin, overturning the truck; whisked a woman's hoarded wealth out of her petticoat pocket; blew a painter out of his saddle high up in the cables of Brooklyn Bridge; blew the S. S. Deutschland broadside against the head of a Hudson River pier; blew homebound Warren S. Coyle's automobile off the road into a stone wall in New Jersey, killing Coyle...
PAPA LA FLEUR-Zona Gale-Appleton...
Belying her name, Zona Gale's literary position is not in stormy latitudes but among calm inland waters. Wiser than her generation, she has taken not the whole U. S. to be her province but only her own small town of Portage, Wis. There, like Candide, she cultivates her literary garden, is content with small, home-grown blooms. Older and gentler than when she wrote Miss Lulu Bett, she still likes to tell a long story briefly, intensively, in quiet words...
...happily ever after. Miss Lulu Bett is the heroine, if such there are in this modern age, of an amusing comedy being shown this week at the Peabody Playhouse, with the Stagers in charge of festivities. The play is taken from a novel of the same name by Zona Gale...
...arrived on shipboard. Most finders promptly called or hurried to the Bronx Zoo, learned the fallen strangers were little auks, cousins of the least auklet and the extinct great auk. Winging southward from their Arctic loomeries,they had been blown inland by a 65-m. p. h. gale...