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...Chinook was named for a wind-the dry warm northwesterly wind that is said to moderate the climate and "lick up" the snow from cold mountain slopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...adjudged the match, fair and official though it was, more a football game than a wrestling bout. Wrestler Sonnenberg took up professional wrestling without premeditation. One night last year in Boston, after watching two grunters struggle, Sonnenberg said: "I could take those two bums in the ring now and lick both of 'em without getting up a sweat." Said Promoter Cy Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Push & Scamper | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...found the stripling all a-blubber, trying to warm his back against the outside of a stockyard store. Reporters nagged him. Muttered he: "Dick's so gentle he wouldn't hurt anybody. But he knew me best, and every time I went near him he tried to lick my face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Live Stock Show | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Writing in Collier's a fortnight ago about the meeting last winter at French Lick, Ind., where the Scripps-Howard editors voted unanimously to support Hoover, Chairman Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard board of directors said: "The average age of the 26 men was just a trifle over 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: P. 5., P. P. S. | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...United Press, were sadly crooked. A Johanna Smith soliloquy, delivered aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported as follows: "The roulette is bad, the poker, twenty-one and chuck-a-lick worse, but the prize albatross these guys hang around a neck is at the craps table. A game of chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Epidemic | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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