Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more capable halma players is William, Griffith. His note is small, facile; it has the grace of not taking its grace too seriously. Of Pierrot the poet he sings, and of Pierrette who is beauty; their loves and losses, songs, sighs, their tears that fall like spangles in a snow storm by Debussy...
Leaving Cambridge at 5 o'clock sleepy and hungry was a hardship they forgot when they saw the flashes, the corona, the colorful shadows flitting across the snow, and the brief appearance of the stars. The returned pilgrims were inclined to shout "sour grapes" at the cynical comments of those who had remained at home...
...minutes before totality set in, but then cleared off beautifully. Miss Cannon, who was stationed at Vassar, reports the same excellent weather conditions. She comments especially on the conspicuous appearance of the shadow bands just before and just after totality, which wavered darkly over the snow. These shadow bands are weird meteorological phenomena about which we know very little...
...clock.--Sun will be a very thin crescent. The atmosphere will look stormy. Observers should watch for shadow bands on sides of white buildings and on the snow. The thin crescent of the sun breaks up into glittering points of light, which astronomers have dubbed Baily's beads...
...handshaking was resumed for an hour with the admission of patriotic societies and the public, who had been standing without in the snow and cold for two or three hours. One man, a member of the Oldest In habitants of the District of Columbia, dropped dead from a heart attack just as he was admitted to the grounds. Among those received was Lieutenant Colonel R. G. Scott of Linn Creek, Mo., who first attended a White House reception in 1862. When the gates shut, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge retired with limp hands to rest...