Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many inaugurations have run into weather trouble. At Grant's second inauguration ball, the shivering guests danced with their overcoats on, and William Howard Taft's inauguration was attended by snow, sleet and storm. But probably the Presidents most plagued by the weather were the Harrisons. At Benjamin Harrison's inauguration in 1889, "rain," according to one account, "fell in torrents ... Pennsylvania Avenue was a moving ocean of umbrellas." Nevertheless, he allowed the ceremony to take place in the open, which was courageous considering what happened to his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, who appeared at his inauguration...
...WILLIE SNOW ETHRIDGE Prospect...
...dawn flushed the snow on the mountains of Lebanon, one of the passengers, Robert Bagarry, went on deck to watch the lights of his home town, Beirut, twinkling on the starboard bow. "We were heading north," he said afterwards. "Then suddenly we turned east ... directly towards the land. I felt like yelling to the bridge to tell them they were wrong, but I said to myself, 'They know better than...
...weeks the fur trade had buzzed with talk about the latest thing in mink. "White wonder of the world," said the ads, "white as purest snow." From the Mutation Mink Breeders Association came a batch of engraved cards, with a golden crown as a crest, announcing the arrival of "this superb new fur." In Manhattan last week, at the first fur auction of the new season, it was obvious that "Jasmine," a new white fur, was indeed the new queen of the minks. It sold as high as $155 a pelt, then settled down to around $70 v. about...
...gentle speed, on snow-white steed...