Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harmarville, Pa., a shipment of cast-off clothing from anthracite miners of the Scranton district brought 300 bituminous strikers stumbling through the muddy snow to scramble for pickings. Of this scene, Vice President Charles E. Lesher of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. (Mellon) said...
Young men and women skilled when things are slippery marched in a parade. Scarlet, green, white and warm fur-brown glowed in their costumes. Flags of the nations snapped in the snow-choked gusts above their heads. Through the storm bulky spires of high Alps sketched in a towering background...
...athletes; French, Austrians, Swiss, Canadians, Czechoslovaks, Mexicans, British, Belgians, Argentines. Scandinavians, and 26 U. S. delegates came after. As the U. S. group were swearing themselves amateurs the storm passed and the sun popped out. Attendants hurried to the hockey rink and busily shooed off the snow. Spectators attended to snowflakes that had sifted down their necks. Two hockey teams in snug tights and jerseys warmed up and stood tense for the face-off. The puck was thrown in and the Olympic games of 1928, winter sports section at St. Moritz, Switzerland, comprising skating, skiing, bob-sleighing, hockey, were declared...
...Washington marched his men to Valley Forge, now a vast well-kept park, along roads that were rutted with ice. The tents went up along the hilltop and the soldiers built their fires in the dark. Night after night the wind blew down like a white wolf, blew the snow up over the small starry fires and howled at Washington's army from a cold, tremendous sky. Soldiers have been brave before and since; Washington's men heard the wind capering like a white wolf in the snowy sky and they held out their hands to fires that...
...hoped by members of the class that, weather permitting, they may spend one of the regular Saturday afternoon ten-mile hikes this month, trotting through snow on snowshoes...