Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring is the season of the Vagabond. It is then that he wakes from his boozy hibernation and begins his hegiras to the pools of Truth. But this year the groundhogs have deceived him, and the Vagabond awakes to find himself in a bitter world of snow, and snow-removers, and more snow. Sitting at his fire with a cheerful glass, he tries to forget, and fancies himself in ancient Attica where it is spring now and the Gods are smiling on humanity. Dinoysus, sitting at Zeus' table, looks down with special pleasure, for this is the time...
...loving family: mother, wife and daughter. Next day he initiated his new son-in-law, John Boettiger in Roosevelt pastimes. In a bright red sleigh with Daughter Anna by his side and Son-in-law John in a single seat behind, President Roosevelt drove for several miles over the snow-packed roads of the Roosevelt estate, to tea at the cottage near the Val-Kill furniture factory...
Although the Crimson five emerged triumphant over Bonniwell in their first tangle, the probability is strong that the one-man team from the regions of ice and snow will take their measure this time. And there will be little to measure since Long Bill Gray was added to the injury list, already comprising Captain Boys and White...
...suggestion of his Eskimo man and accepting the services of a native lady of all work. The unhappy man is saved from this greasy fate by the sudden appearance of Sir James Fenton, noted English sportsman and prig, and his comely fiancee, Ethel Campion. Two years of snow and crawling things have improved Dinsmore neither in appearance nor technique, in fact so pointed is his approach to Miss Campion that the noble Sir James resolves to save his lady's virtue by a mad flight in the teeth of a Labrador blizzard. By this time, however, Miss Campion's invulnerability...
...that this can easily be accomplished by a second marriage. The inevitable riot scene, in which the carnival personnel squeals "Hey Rube!" and Poochy is left in a tent which catches fire, serves for a climax. Sportswriter Grantland Rice's daughter Florence, who began her acting career as Snow Queen in the Dartmouth Winter Carnival of 1928 does well in a brief sequence as a trained nurse...