Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inside the Kremlin Fortress 600 pink-cheeked, drably-dressed Russians met last week in the gorgeous, glittering onetime Throne Room of Tsar Nicholas II. Stamping the snow off their shoes, blowing on their hands, wiping their red noses, lighting cigarets and shouting greetings they sat down on wooden benches for a brief session of the Soviet Parliament, or Union Central Executive Committee...
...fire. During the week Lieut. General Tamon's forces cautiously advanced south from Mukden, easily brushing aside Chinese skirmishers in a series of minor clashes, and prepared to meet and crush the first serious Chinese resistance, expected at Kowpangtze, 50 mi. north of Chinchow. Japanese troops camouflaged as snow men in long white gowns crawled forward eleven miles fighting every inch of the way. The temperature was 30 below zero. Japanese scouting planes reported a force of at least 3.000 Chinese "bandits" waiting to defend Panshanhsien. Total Japanese forces in Manchuria did not exceed 25,000 last week, though...
...Brook), wife (Vivienne Osborne) and mistress (Juliette Compton)?regard their situation as a predicament. They make honest and generally sensible efforts to extricate themselves. The wife is eventually generous enough to give the husband a divorce. He, still troubled by a case of indecision, wanders about in the snow at night, making up his mind which way to go. The mistress, who is not a designing wench but a loyal devotee, observes his quandary, thinks to solve it. by taking poison. Poison fails to kill her. The last reel shows Clive Brook at home again, solemnly celebrating Christmas with...
...starvation, not wounds that kills them. Their horns lock, and in the spring a woodsman will find such skeletal traces of the combat as the foxes and mice have left. Last week a railroad brakeman in Colorado came before spring did. He saw two big bucks fighting in the snow near the tracks, their horn locked. When he got to Steamboat Springs, the brakeman told the agent, who told some farmers, who took rope and saw, cut the deer apart, watched them bound off towards the woods side by side...
...page the Bible and leave it open on the desk at the Gospel of St. Luke. Mothers hide electric engines in the clothes closet at night. Children play with electric engines on a hard-wood floor the next afternoon. Motor cars are set out into the up country hoping snow will fly in New Hampshire. In the Middle West small, angular cards with family crests announce small dances, big dinners. A special train slips out of the South Station and a saxaphone spills from an upper berth. It is the Christmas season...