Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Again, 'The Boss' " was the caption under a picture of Paul V. ("Snow White") McNutt on a pamphlet issued by Indiana's Unemployment Compensation Administration. Beneath picture & caption appeared a chart showing the McNutt rise from law school dean in 1925 to Legion Commander in 1928, Governor in 1933, Philippine High Commissioner in 1937, to a radiant White House in 1941. Candidate McNutt, now Federal Security Administrator charged with supervising expenses of State unemployment insurance systems, forgave his overzealous friends but, embarrassed by talk in the U. S Senate, ordered the Indiana board's Federal funds...
...cold roof of the world, earned the Murchison Grant of the Royal Geographical Society for his pains. There were plenty of them. Salween is probably the cheerfullest book ever written of discomforts ranging from intense heat among blood-sucking leeches to intense cold and a face so cracked by snow-burn "it oozed all over like a roasting joint...
There is little midnight sun or everlasting snow in Author Victor's account, but there are unforgettable scenes of greed, filth, and foul food. Sample: "Behind the hut there was an enormous heap of seal's fat which had been left untouched for years, and was now transformed into a kind of yellowish rock which exuded rivulets of pus that reflected the sunlight. The birds which alighted on it lost, first their feathers and then their lives. . . . In this sticky, slimy mass, Yosepi, Gaba, Kriwi, Doumidia and I floundered about with shouts of laughter. We gathered handfuls...
...Biggest sellers: Grosset and Dunlap and Garden City (about 3,000,000 each). Another 10,000,000 is added by the nonprofit-making National Home Library's "Jacket Library" (15? & 25?), Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Books (5?), Whitman Publishing Co.'s 10? Woolworth items such as Snow White...
Sunk in the plateau that surrounds the Sterren Mountains, snow-capped backbone of Netherlands New Guinea, is a triangular-shaped, 40-acre swamp with no visible outlet. On hands and knees, Charles Miller gazed down into its reeds. A quarter mile away something moved. Charles Miller's blood froze. Lashing across the swamp was a dinosaur. It was 35 feet long, a yellowish color, with scales laid on like armor plate, a bony-flanged head, and snappin-turtle beak. Half blinded by cold sweat, Charles Miller pressed the release on his camera.* The dinosaur reared up on its hind...