Word: snowman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human top"); Adagio Specialists Idi Papez and Karl Zwack of Vienna (onetime European pair champions) ; Brooklyn-born Evelyn Chandler, who turns nine Arabian cartwheels without touching hands to ice; little Harris Legg, who takes a breath-taking leap over a lineup of eleven barrels and as a giant snowman performs the rare stunt of skating on 18-inch stilts; onetime Minnesota Footballer Heinie Brock and his buffoonery; Eddie Shipstad & Oscar Johnson, still cutting up in their own show...
...park bench, a "funny little sentence" running through his head: "At the beginning of a new age, angels stand in the silent darkness-angels with dim eyes and fiery swords." He wakes to find himself covered with snow, and a child runs up crying that he is a snowman. Thinks he: "And you'll grow up, and you'll remember the soldier. . . . Your children will tell you that this soldier was a common murderer -but don't revile him. Just think, how could he help himself? He was a child of his time...
...over frozen Dominion tundra, Pilot Hume lost his vision because of a frosty windshield. He slowed down to clean it off by moving into a large snowbank at the side of the road, since it would save his rather feeble brakes undue exertion. Like the boy who tackled the snowman built around a fire hydrant Hume found that all is not snow that drifts. The ancient carriage demolished itself against a submerged culvert...
...shambling English sheep dog named Snowman, his sad eyes and wide shoulders muffled in a cloud of smoky coat, who had been brought from Toronto by F. T. James...
...years Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon has had fair fiscal weather. Ample taxes from a busy, thriving nation piled up whacking big surpluses for him to administer. Under the sun of Prosperity, the Public Debt melted like a snowman in May. A happy man devoted to his job, Secretary Mellon was kept awake at night by no great problems of government finance. Because his department operates one year behind current business conditions (though the Government's spending is planned a half-year ahead), the stock-crash of 1929 was only a far-off warning of coming trouble...