Word: storming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sibours. A terrific Burmese storm last week discomfited Vicomte Jacques de Sibour and his wife, daughter of London's department store tycoon, Harry Gordon Selfridge. The de Sibours are flying around the world. After landing at Moulmein, near Rangoon, the couple took off in frisky weather, attained Bangkok, Siam...
...Student Council had a brain storm at its meeting last Friday. Result: the College is to have a brain team, and will enter the intercollegiate culture contest field this semester...
...head of the air parade that floated in among the clouds over the White House on Inauguration Day was the dirigible Los Angeles and four blimps. When the parade was over the Los Angeles soared back through the murk and storm to Lakehurst, N.J. Of the four blimps, one belonging to the Army and two belonging to the Navy, were unable, on account of the weather, to return to their bases at Langley Field, Va., and Lakehurst...
...child to the tune of torn toms and delirious celebration. Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause no one of us ever let her hear nothin' else." The Significance. Richer tales have been written of South Sea wonders, more winning records have been made of childhood...
...Storm and Stress' Movement in German Literature", Professor Silz, Sever...