Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Powell tapping out her specialized magic, the whole cast suddenly gives out the feeling that comes to a show when all hands are tops in their lines and happy with what they are doing. Plot is forgotten, the Christmas tree is spangled with dialog as amiably frivolous as artificial snow and lighted up with rows of handsome specialties, three of which stand out: Reginald Gardiner as a park policeman leading an invisible orchestra; Barnett Parker as a sissy floorwalker demonstrating a model home; a ballroom dance number by Georges & Jama. Best songs: Rap, Tap On Wood by Powell, Easy...
Some forehanded people buy Christmas gifts in August, but the market for Christmas trees never opens until after Thanksgiving. Last week long flatcars laden with evergreens and snow began to roll into New York and Chicago, focal points of the Christmas tree business. In the four weeks before Dec. 25, at least 400 carloads will be sold in New York, 250 in Chicago. Hundreds of carloads will be sold off the sidings in other cities, bringing U. S. tree dealers a total business of perhaps $10,000,000. Of the profit there can be no certainty. A carload of Christmas...
...crisp, clear winter's morning with the snow packed in clean squares on the ground. The blue sky seemed to reflect the purity of earth and air. It was the sort of day when a young man's thoughts turn to the contemplation of Nature's simple beauty. A student, weighty with books yet light with joy and good feeling, smiled at a little, rosy-checked lass who was patting the snow with her red-mittened hands. The sweet innocence on her round face made him wistful, and for a moment he lost his carefree look. But to show...
...Moscow last week Communist comrades blinked in amazement at the madness of Americans. The fresh snow in the backyard of the famous Spiridonovskaya Palace was littered with new bathtubs and other plumbing fixtures. One of the handsomest houses in the city, it was built only a few years before the revolution by Spasso, a fur tycoon (soon afterward murdered by his son), and its plumbing, barely 25 years old, is among the most modern in Moscow. But those crazy Americans who rented it as a home for their Ambassador have to have still newer plumbing...
...personnel of the Department consists of thirty groundkeepers, in addition to which are hired 100 more or less extra men depending upon the size of the snow fall. These labor crews, which sometimes include students are hired and start work from the basement of Harvard Hall at 6:00 o'clock in the morning