Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supervisors, salesmen, translators, tutors, and waiters. There is also an entertainment bureau which supplies lecturers, entertainers, and orchestras and is open to all students who have special abilities whether they have financial difficulties or not. More than 300 engagements were filled by the bureau last year. Window washing and snow shoveling services were also proven popular successes last year...
...than a foot square and all by the same artist, was a breathtaking medley of scenes and events, ranging from the crucifixion of Christ to the execution of Nathan Hale, from an attack of delirium tremens to the Ride of John Gilpin, from Little Britches left out in the snow to Poet Poe addressing the Raven. Sentimental though most of the subjects were, the craftsmanship in each picture was remarkably good. And not a single one had ever seen the light of print or public exhibition...
...West, which feels as justified by logic in its position as a man 'talking reason' with a high-strung woman. . . . Nippon, the most feminine-minded nation, may yet accomplish what Alexander, Caesar, Genghiz, Charlemagne, Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm II failed to accomplish." Far Eastern Front by Edgar Snow (Smith & Haas, $3.75) "A visit to India, to Japan, to the Philippines, leaves you suddenly with the conviction that in many obscure but important ways the Chinese people are far in advance of Eastern men elsewhere, and that in them ultimately and inevitably resides the cultural leadership of Asia...
...patient told him quietly: "Say, fellow, you've got it all wrong. You don't tell them. They tell you." Once he had accepted its concealed, but absolutely inflexible, discipline. William Seabrook found the asylum a pleasant and interesting lockup. Soon he was walking miles through the snow, going regularly to the barber shop, whether he wanted to or not, attending compulsory dances and cinemas, and in the spring playing golf and tennis. But he could...
First, the Vincey expedition meets a wild British fur trader living in a snow hut with his lovely daughter Tanya (Helen Mack). Next they find old John Vincey's body sealed in a glacier, like a lamb chop in aspic. Hacking at the glacier the fur trader starts an avalanche. The avalanche opens up the entrance to an underground kingdom where Leo, his associate and Tanya are assaulted by cannibals, lugged off in time's nick to a porphyry castle, where a queen named She (Helen Gahagan) mistakes Leo Vincey for his ancestor, explains that she has been...