Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister of Actor Louis Calhern, in a square-crowned flat sailor with quill. A rakish felt sailor for debutantes was worn by beauteous Miss Rion Fortescue of Washington, sister of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, principal in last spring's Honolulu tragedy. Absent from the group was Editrix Carmel Snow of U. S. Vogue. The schoolgirl was a professional model...
Before getting down to work. Dr. Belknap last week was jaunting in the Arctic. With Marie Peary Stafford, Arctic-born daughter of the discoverer of the North Pole, and her two sons, he went to build a tower of rocks on snow-covered Cape York in northwest Greenland, in Admiral Peary's memory...
...nomads of central Asia, The Silent Enemy for the Amerindian in 1930. Grass was a symphonic study in time, space, herds and mountains. The Silent Enemy used a plot, a love triangle. Igloo follows the evolved formula of love against a landscape. Otherwise it is an unrelieved stagger through snow...
...night last week as people began emerging from New York theatres there swept upon the city on the tail of a north-west wind hundreds of thousands of pristine white moths. They clustered in shop windows, in pedestrians' ears, started a report that snow was falling. They blinded motorists, delayed traffic. In dance halls they got between the cheeks of dancers. In dark taxicabs they caused many a false accusation. At Bellevue Hospital internes with folded newspapers beat them away from alcoholics who might have mistaken them for seagulls. Thousands perished on freshly painted lamp posts. Police were called...
...York's moths were snow-white linden moths (Ennomos subsignarius) of the measuring-worm or elm-span family (Geometridae). In the caterpillar stage they live on leaves, preferably elm and linden, and also like lettuce salad. Having but two pairs of prolegs. the worms push themselves with their hind legs until they are humped like a croquet wicket, then slide their front ends forward. Grown fat, they spin a thread, slide down it to the ground, snooze under fallen leaves. Early in July the moth emerges, seeks company, goes off whichever way the wind is blowing. Last week...