Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fame dates from a day in 1937 when, driving his wife to Mexico for her health, he heard of Franklin Roosevelt's Court-packing plan over his automobile's radio. Immediately he telephoned back to Wichita, released a flood of anti-Court Plan pamphlets, threatened to snow Congress under with a million petitions...
Since August 1933, John Wiley Hill and Donald Snow Knowlton, heads of a Cleveland publicity firm, have received $323,000 from the American Iron and Steel Institute and individual Little Steel companies. The La Follette committee produced "personal and confidential" documents revealing the efforts of Edgar S. Bowerfind, Hill & Knowlton representative in Birmingham, Ala., to make local newspapers see the rectitude of Republic Steel Corp.'s position on labor problems. The technique, involving no innovations, consisted of visits to local editors and pressure "judiciously exerted" through advertisers...
...cryptic as a surrealist in explaining his art, Alfred said he just painted whatever popped into his head. When asked how it happened, in his painting of a devil, that the crimson body wore black tights but the horns were white, he said darkly, "Maybe he fell in the snow...
...Woodstock, N. Y., the second of seven successive shows featured the Alaskan paintings, rich in reds and greens and snow whites, of Marianne Appel...
...ride one day last week to the top of Pikes Peak. There, along the highway, from Crystal Creek to the summit (12½ miles), 15 sturdy runners plodded along in a unique contest called the Vertical Mile Marathon, sponsored by the Colorado Springs Junior Chamber of Commerce. At the snow-banked summit (14,108 ft. above sea level and exactly one mile higher than the starting point), a sunburned crowd of 300 watched all but five of the runners finish...