Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SNOW-F. Wright Moxley-Simon & Schuster ($1). This novel undertakes to finish off the human race and does so in 400 overcrowded pages. The cause of the end is mysterious. On Aug. 17, 1935, occurred a short fall of red, snow-like flakes, penetrating buildings and clothing. No consequences were noticed for nine months. Then: "The news at first fuliginous in its incomprehensibleness soon became fulgent in its clarity." The "red snow" had sterilized humanity. With all the restraints of care for posterity at once removed, civilization began to disintegrate. Racial hatreds flamed and religious wars burst out. Fanatics seized...
...within range. Then they raised their guns, fired. They saw the monks start, hide behind rocks. After a few minutes the monks reappeared, started to go their way. The soldiers fired again. No monk was hurt but after the second fusillade a St. Bernard dog lay gasping on the snow...
...Great St. Bernard pass leading from Martigny, Switzerland to Aosta, Italy has been known and used since prehistoric times. Dangerous always, snow usually covers it to a depth of seven or eight feet, sometimes 40 ft. In 962 Bernard (923-1008), a priest, seeing that many pilgrims used the pass on their way to Rome, founded a hospice on the highest point, 8000 ft., decreed that it should stand as a haven for all travelers. Several years later he founded another hospice, in the Little St. Bernard pass which runs from Bourg St. Maurice to Aosta. During a visit...
...propaganda content, the feud between Kima and a rich local fur trader might have been a great story. In its present form it is interesting principally because it was made in the Taiga. Good shots: slow thinking Kima consulting with the Soviet officials; his fight in the snow with the treacherous trader...
...sentimental ribbons, trodden it with captions, tickled it with humor, has supplied it with brass bands and flags and letters from home and photographs of the explorers' children on the croquet lawns of Massachusetts?with everything except, by some unaccountable omission, 'love interest'? has in brief, found it snow and left it slush...