Word: leewards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steaming summer evening, many U.S. music lovers would as soon sit down to leeward of an elephant as go to a hot & heavy grand opera. Cincinnati's indefatigable music lovers, however, like to do both...
Yale took first in the two-day regatta with 144 points, thereby qualifying along with Brown for the National Championships. The races were over a three-quarter mile windward-leeward course, and sailing conditions were almost ideal...
Wells & Chains. "I wouldn't," beefy bachelor Baldwin once said in explanation of his single state, "bring a child into a capitalist world, and I like children, too." As Governor of the West Indies' Leeward Islands (pop. 109,000), the pipe-smoking scion of the pipe-smoking symbol of the Conservative Party seemed determined to erase all trace of capitalism from his Caribbean domain...
...ugliest" woman in the room. His favorite luncheon guest was a small pickaninny who wore nothing but a vest and a broad smile. Such eccentricities, the white colony complained, were a bad influence on the restless natives. Earl Baldwin was summarily ordered to take a plane home "to discuss Leeward's problems...
...Young man on the right, my Young readers," and the Sage of the Age, and a very Young age it is too, "is Leeward Skreindler, Young Dartmouth politics, cheerleader, and vendor of hand-painted ties. When not practicing the old locomotive, Skreindler is prone to wend his way upward on the political ladder two, Youngs at a time...