Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. It so happened that I was passing through a serious personal crisis, my young son being desperately ill on Long Island. I felt too utterly miserable, to do anything, I was sitting in front of the theatre in the snow, the wires had been blown down by a storm and I had no news of my son. One hour before the performance, I heard word that my boy had passed the dangerous stage and was no longer to be feared for. In that hour, still sitting in the snow, I learned and studied the whole poem. The first evening...
...Haven, Conn., Sept 30. The Yale eleven held practice today in the midst of a driving rain storm. It was thought best to keep Captain Lovejoy out of the scrimmage for the day, since he is suffering from a slight cold. However, Burt ably substituted in his place. The first team line-up was: Bingham and Luman, ends; Joss and Butterworth, tackles; Eckart and Wortham, guards: Burt, center; Weineeke, quarter-back; and Cottle, Pond and Bench, backs...
...Rain and storm fought the U. S. fliers, journeying from Manhattan to Washington in their attempt to keep an appointment with their Commander-in-Chief, the President of the U. S. A worn-out gear brought Lient. Nelson down near Baltimore, and he was obliged to continue in an escorting plane. A dense fog at Aberdeen, Md., brought down the whole exhibition for lunch and rest till the weather cleared. For four hours the presidential party waited in drizzling rain at Boiling Field. But Mr. Coolidge took the matter good-naturedly, welcomed the national heroes with unabated enthusiasm, examined every...
Lieutenants Smith and Nelson, U. S. ''air Magellans," rested in Ivigtut, Greenland, installed new motors in their planes, took test spins, then sat watching the weather. A hurricanic storm had been reported sweeping toward the Labrador coast whither they were bent...
After the storm had broken and the skies had cleared, Lieut. Smith wirelessed Admiral Magruder, commanding the naval patrol fleet, that he and Nelson would hop off for Ice Tickle, two miles east of Indian Harbor. The four ships strung out between Ivigtut and the Labrador coast was notified...