Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were a potato. He is just congratulating himself on having despatched his antagonist when Rasputin stands up. His face is an indescribable pulp, spattered with blood and sticky morsels which appear to be brains; nonetheless, he manages to give a Barrymore grunt. Chegodieff takes Rasputin out into the snow, pushes his gory head into a river...
Alarmed at the plight of U. S. birds whose food supply has been buried under deep snow, Audubon Society officials recently went to the Post Office Department with an idea. Last week First Assistant Postmaster General Arch Coleman announced that bird-lovers may mail cracked corn and small grain, to be scattered by rural mail carriers along their routes. Sufficient address: "Mr. & Mrs. Bird...
...Vagabond, retreating from the snow flurries to the airy warmth of his tower, meditates by preference on those not-so-spacious but still glamorous days when Leicester's barge moved down the Thames in the evening, when a bribed servant brought a certain ring to Elizabeth on the morning of Essex's execution. On winter nights, with a sheet of snow on the streets, and the wind making the torches flare, a group of roisterers would come back from an afternoon at the Globe, or bear-baiting on the Bank side, or even from an excursion among the wenches...
...Notre Dame 13. ¶The crowd-100,000, in the Memorial Coliseum where the Olympic Games were held last summer-was the season's largest. In Baltimore, 1,723 spectators watched a charity game between picked teams representing North and South. South won, in an inch of snow, 7 to 6. From Knoxville last week came an announcement that Southern footballers have expected for several years: disintegration of the Southern Conference. Alabama, Auburn. Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Sewanee, Tennessee, Tulane, Vanderbilt resigned, formed a new group to be called the Southeastern Conference. Reason...
...Soviet Government. Soprano Redell did not invest in Samuel Insull's utility corporations but she told a tale which made the News investigate the circumstances and whereabouts of Chicago Civic Opera artists who did. Said she: "Whenever some one would be engaged always there would be a snow-storm of literature telling them how much money they would make by investing in Mr. Insull's securities. I hadn't even signed my contract before my mail was simply flooded with Insull securities literature...