Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comments from: the nursery clock, the shoes, the fire, Shakespeare, Vivien, the desk, the prostitute, the heart. You hear Remarks on the Person of Mr. Jones from: the trained nurse ("it's a fine boy, not a blemish, God bless him"); other boys ("hey bricktop! hey carrots"); the snow ("centuries hence, it will be long ago''). You follow his career by reading a list of Inscriptions in Sundry Places, from which you learn that he spent his boyhood in the South at the end of the last century, that his father was a doctor, that he went...
Bernard W. ("Barney") Snow, G. O. P. leader of Cook County and a director of the new Federation, declared that, though nonpartisan, the Federation would work politically to abolish the Federal Farm Board and 79 other Governmental agencies competing with private business. The Federation pledged itself to "put an end to the undermining of the principles of American government by the encroachment of Socialism and Communism...
...Suddenly Passang's body shot downward, followed immediately by Schaller, who in a high curve shot over him through the air into the snow-filled couloir...
...Next day we brought the dead down through the soft snow to an island of rock emerging from the sea of ice and surrounded by an incomparable mountain circus. There we buried them today, not trying to hide our tears, and joined all our forces to build a tomb worthy of the man who gave his life for a great cause...
...appear next winter, he held conference after conference on unemployment and relief. From the Treasury he got a report which showed that $453,000,000 had been authorized for 758 public building projects, that at least $300,000,000 worth of this work would be actively started before snow flies. To the White House, Secretary of Labor Doak brought another report showing that in the last four months the U. S. Employment Service "by combing the highways and byways has succeeded in finding jobs for 281,769 unemployed." Next the President called in Julius Barnes, board chairman and Silas Strawn...