Word: snows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ships and planes, heading north, brought food, medicines, snow glasses, gum boots, guns. Unlike Eskimos, Italians cannot trap seals by hand, find it difficult to bag polar bears. Unconfirmed reports said the thiee Arctic pedestrians were safe aboard an ice breaker. Capt. Roald Amundsen, not on speaking terms ,,ith Pilgrim Nobile, forgot personal enmities to lead a rescue expedition...
...accept the challenge. . . . Expenditure will be kept inside revenue, no matter what the decrease in revenue may be." General Lord stared the deficit in the face, recalled the black days of 1919: "In certain localities it is the custom to refer to the year of the big snow or the great flood. ... I think our Treasury will always refer to 1919 as the year of the big debt and big deficit" (debt, $26,596,701,648.01; deficit, $13,370,637,568.60). But happier days are at hand: (estimated debt, June 30, 1928, $17,650,000,000; surplus...
...Carry on, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse. Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse. No Other Tiger, A. E. W. Mason. The Crook's Shadow, J. Jefferson Farjeon. The Portrait Invisible, Joseph Gollomb. 2 L. O., Walter S. Masterman. The Shot on the Downs, Victor L. Whitechurch. Tracks in the Snow, Lord Charnwood. The Old Dark House, J. B. Priestly. The Greene Murder Case, S. S. Van Dine...
...head wind, its speed cut to 40 miles, ice forming on its sides. Gradually the air cleared, visibility improved. Lenin Land, discovered by the Russians 15 years ago, was the next objective. General Nobile hoped to land a scientific party on Lenin Land but so thick was the falling snow, so menacing the cold and dreary waste, that after hunting in vain for a sight of the land, the project was abandoned and the Italia's nose pointed toward Spitsbergen...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-Mary had a little jam, but she was white as snow (TIME...