Word: snows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Representative Edwin Snow rose on the floor of the Idaho legislature, was recognized by the chair-and asked pretty, redheaded State Representative Edith Miller to marry him. Said thirtyish Miss Miller, after order had been restored: ". . . on a point of personal privilege I accept Mr. Snow's proposal...
Bavaria's countryside, its soft-rolling hills and gabled farmhouses blanketed by late snow, looked as snug and changeless as ever. Only at a few points along main roads did little, neatly painted buildings strike an odd note: U.S. snack bars, complete with hamburger, jukebox and all the refined necessities of American life. They reminded you that this is, in a sense, America's Bavaria...
Mike Siner led in conspicuousness of poster area by suspending his name in foot square letters from the ceiling of the Union lobby and writing his name with green paint on the snow outside. "Colonel" Bill Warner issued a directive ordering "all personnel to abstain from study and classes on the weekend in question," promising "severe reprimands to the College Administration if they interfered...
Perhaps the most interesting selection in the magazine is John Snow's critique of "The Naked and The Dead." Snow manages to take apart the professional critics neatly and without an undue display of emotion, and then proceeds to point out the qualities of Mailer's novel which never occurred to those who typed him as a straight Dos Passos-Hemingway disciple. This is a considered review which stresses affirmative qualities in the novel unnoticed by most commentators...
...Have Never Indulged." Dressed as usual in golf togs, Willem Mengelberg leaned on two sticks as he walked along the snow-covered paths around the Roman Catholic chapel he had vowed to build if his chasa was spared in World War I. "I have never indulged in politics," he said. "My art is public property; I am not supposed to withhold it from anyone...