Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right through the bus windows. They managed to scramble back again however. I called a conference . . . [and] issued a statement assuring everybody that the storm had passed and not to worry. Well, no sooner did the words leave my mouth than another gale came up. Then it began to snow. ... I looked around and saw that one of the boys, Charlie Curtis, had a coating of ice on his moustache. Claudius Huston had both ears nipped and . . . Andy Mellon . . . was sitting on the floor of the bus rubbing...
...ship took off for Newark. Two others headed for Pittsburgh. One of these, carrying five girls, got only 20 mi. west of Baltimore's Logan Field when low clouds turned it back. The pilot of the other Pittsburgh-bound ship, with three girls, lost his way in snow and sleet, was thrice forced down in the farmlands of Pennsylvania. Instead of a two-hour flight, the Goucher girls spent a long, cold day, arrived at Pittsburgh next morning by train...
...closed season on Ross's geese and cackling geese everywhere and on snow geese through the Atlantic States...
...Eugen Jan Boissevain (Edna St. Vincent Millay), poetess (Renascence and Other Poems, The King's Henchman, The Buck in the Snow), left "Steepletop," her home at Austerlitz, N. Y., to have some fun in Manhattan. She described her fun to the press: "Staying out until seven o'clock in the morning. It's just a round of 'pub-crawling.' Don't you like that word? I wish I had invented...
...kitchens, laundry, paint shop, chair and shoe factories. The confusion increased. Eyes stinging with the yellow smoke, more than a thousand prisoners broke all the windows of the buildings which would not burn, destroyed their food supply, screamed, leaped, slipped, tumbled about in the thick mud left by melted snow. Finally Warden Hill walked out among them and ordered: "Go back to your cells or we'll fire." A Negro advanced threateningly, was shot down. The rest dispersed, having done $500,000 worth of damage in two hours. As a warning, highway police, militiamen, Chicago and Joliet constabulary paraded...