Word: hut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With enough food for 40 days, the Greely party put up a snow-block hut, settled down for its third winter in the North. From an old newspaper wrapped around some of the supplies cached at Cape Sabine they first learned of President Garfield's death more than two years before. But by that time the sullen, hungry, miserable men could think and talk of little except meals they had eaten, restaurant menus they had seen. Each soldier was limited to a few ounces of food per day, except for double rations to one whose hands and feet were...
Bascom Dinsmore (in no way related to the famed Elsie and portrayed by the aforementioned Mr. King) has escaped from the cares of London society to the solitude of a snowbound, windswept radio hut in Labrador. This solitude has, after two years, become oppressively complete and Dinsmore seems on the point of yielding to the suggestion of his Eskimo man and accepting the services of a native lady of all work. The unhappy man is saved from this greasy fate by the sudden appearance of Sir James Fenton, noted English sportsman and prig, and his comely fiancee, Ethel Campion...
...Graham of Carbondale, Pa. and Mrs. W. N. Wagner of Waterford. Mich. Jounced by the waters beyond endurance, they presented such a spectacle of woe that even with bandits hot on the junks trail there was nothing to do but pull ashore. In a rude Chinese peasant hut Missionary Doctor George Totell of Chicago performed the hasty, almost simultaneous deliveries-from Mrs. Graham a daughter, then from Mrs. Wagner a son. Piling back aboard the junks, the 36 who had become 38, tore on to safety, arrived splashed and wind-bitten at Changsha where Dr. Totell announced that both mothers...
...their common friend. In their search for an island paradise in the Pacific they had come upon Charles Island only to find it already occupied by two other romantic German couples. Arthur Wittmer and his wife, Margaret Walbrol, practicing nudists, lived with their two children in a corrugated zinc hut. Dr. Karl Ritter and Frau Dore Koervin had abandoned their respective spouses to seek Utopian freedom. Dr. Ritter was a dentist. Thinking of life 800 miles from an electric drill, he had all his own teeth pulled, substituting an indestructible set of stainless steel grinders...
...When Stokowski turned operatic and conducted Alban Berg's Wozzeck (TIME, March 30, 1931) a spotlight magnified the shadow of his hands on the theatre's ceiling. *Curtis Bok is no "angel." Hut during his lifetime his father, Edward Bok, gave $239,000 to the Orchestra's Endowment Fund...