Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great man was explaining the custom of "plucking," and the Vagabond listened. Outside those blood red curtains, snow was whirling to the gentle stop that tomorrow would be mud, but within there was a sort of dark brown warmth. To be sure, there was bric-a-brac, there was the sky blue oriental, there were landscapes, and there were the chandeliers, but this did not matter; for there were outstretched legs with two shiny boots at their ends, and there was the cupped ear. "Liquid jade," he mused, and was reconciled...
HARTE (Bet) Snow-Bound at Eagle's. Ex-library copy...
...scholarships have been developed this year. They are called Service Scholarships and carry an average stipend of $150. Sixty men who hold these do various odd jobs for the maintenance department about the grounds and buildings. Their work includes the mowing of lawns, shovelling snow, and trimming shrubbery. There are several positions in the delivery and cataloguing departments of the Baker Library...
...DOLL'S TRUNK MURDER?Helen Reilly?Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Seven strangers, each with motive, each suspecting each of the murder in a snow-bound lonely farmhouse...
...tale of a snow-locked glen in the Scottish highlands during a winter of the 1860's. Adam Yestreen, the young minister of the kirk, sets down the eerie happenings of his one and only winter there. A man with simple, homely ways, with speculations as to the strange death of one of his predecessors, with a great kindness for all, and a quaint sort of humor, he falls in love with Miss Julie Logan, that "long stalk of loveliness." Their few meetings have many of the elements of a dream about them, yet she seems very much...