Word: sleighs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife and I join in a request that the gentleman known to us only as "The Voice of Roosevelt" be used only in that capacity. It is most incongruous, at least in our humble opinion, to hear the President in so lowly (though not mean) an occupation as sleigh driver to the late Ion Duca, martyred Premier of Rumania...
...British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick of time, secret sleigh journeys on the Baltic ice, wolves, and various other escapes from famine, sword and fire...
Plump and pink Queen Wilhelmina, whose nose grew red as she went sleigh-riding in Switzerland last week, pronounced a solemn Speech from the Throne before she left The Hague. Mindful of her Dutch East Indies, in which live 60,000,000 of Her Majesty's 69,000,000 subjects, she gave them a new and more dignified name: Netherlands India...
...dinners we had ever eaten, including several different kinds of wine. The other guests at the table were amazed that Mrs. Campbell and I did not drink and teased us a great deal about Prohibition in the United States. . . . Before the evening was over we had a typical Russian sleigh ride through the thick dark forests. Mrs. Kalinin took me with her, while the rest of the party went in a large sleigh. She had a spirited horse, but was an excellent driver although she succeeded in upsetting the sleigh twice, which I am satisfied she did as a joke...
...lady is having a baby. Rebecca does not get home until morning. Her aunts are furious. One of them has caught pneumonia going to the prayer meeting. When she is better, Dr. Ladd and Rebecca will be married. Typical shot: Rebecca, after riding through a snowstorm in an open sleigh which finally tips over, arriving at her aunts' house with two flakes of snow on her dress...