Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly a week Chicago had been shy 473 policemen, 224 firemen, 1,400 other employes. Alarmed citizens forecast dire results: uncollected garbage, unshoveled snow, unquenched fires, uncaught criminals. Underwriters spoke of higher insurance rates. To thicken the fiscal fog. however, City Treasurer Charles S. Peterson, self-styled "Custodian of the City Deficit," reported that there was no money in the treasury to meet a Jan. 20 payroll...
...devoted himself to portraiture and figure groups, often using for models the members of his numerous family. Possibly the most noteworthy, certainly the most celebrated, of his 47 paintings which hung at the Grand Central last week was Mourning Her Brave: the figure of a squaw, standing in snow at the edge of a cliff. Birds circle in the grey sky over her head, the snow stretches upward behind her over rocks, she raises her wide shoe-button eyes into a sky that is empty of all things except snow...
...Minn. They dined with the mayor, city officials and the Chamber of Commerce. The four transports were at various stages of the first lap. One was forced back. The bedraggled radio plane got as far as St. Ignace. Mich.; two more got to Munising. Next day they straggled through snow storms to Minot, N. Dak., then to Great Falls, Mont. From Spokane, their terminal, they received bleak news. Weather there had inopportunely moderated. The ski-shod planes needed snow or thick ice for landing. Spokane had neither, temporarily, last week. Major Ralph Royce, leader of the patrol, declared the flight...
...geological features of the easternmost range of the Canadian Rockies. Here also the men could be initiated into the technicalities of mountain climbing, as Roche Miette towered 4000 feet above the camp and gave splendid preparatory training for those who hoped later to scale the glacier-hung and snow-capped mountains a few miles farther west...
...sells it to the jeweler. Young André Jobey enlists in the Army with a friend and they go to Russia under Napoleon. In the retreat from Moscow they meet a Russian officer, Burin, who has just lost his silver whip and is looking for it drunkenly through the snow. The whip has been picked up by somebody and given to Napoleon who passing through Senlis on his way to Paris, flings it into the jeweler's shop...