Word: thunderstorms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day of play, the heat wave, against which the British had complained, broke in a loud thunderstorm, the British Ryder Cup team lost three out of four two-ball foursomes. Next day, Gene Sarazen kept his trousers pressed and his shirt buttoned up, beat Fred Robson, seven up. He appalled Robson on the fourth hole by driving his ball into a refreshment stand, playing a niblick shot off the floor & through a window to within eight feet of the hole. Bill Burke, Greenwich, Conn., professional, beat erratic Archie Compston seven up. A home-town gallery was with Densmore Shute...
...with him, Mayor Baker promised to send him $50 per year. Not to be outdone by this Portlandish gesture, Henri Prince, representing New York's Mayor Walker, proclaimed adoption of the eight-year-old cornetist in the same band. Then all the mayors sang "Sweet Adeline." A portentous thunderstorm marked the night arrival of the mayors in Paris. They were met by Count jean de Castel-lane, president of the Municipal Council, who invited them to luncheon next day at the Hotel de Ville "in behalf of the Town of Paris." Quipped irrepressible Mayor Baker: "If Paris is just...
Little Tyrolese children in the neighborhood of Kufstein will think that many a thunderstorm is brewing next summer, if thunderstorms mean to them that God is rolling barrels around in the sky. An organ whose echoes will be heard for miles around the valley is to be installed on the great rock of Geroldseck as an Austrian War Memorial. Contributions taken throughout Germany and Austria have paid for the building of the great instrument which will have 1,735 pipes rising above what will appear to be a miniature keyboard set 330 feet lower down on the rock...
Despite Duke Borea d'Olmo centenarian zeal, the three royal special trains were an hour late in reaching Assisi; a thunderstorm burst; Princess Giovanna dropped her bridal bouquet into the gutter; Tsar Boris was soaked to the skin; during the ceremony tear after tear coursed down the cheeks of the bride...
Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for the British Air Ministry, lately wrote: "Another disaster like that which befell the Shenandoah, would delay development for many years." He had ridden on the Shenandoah just before an Ohio thunderstorm tossed, twisted and tore her to disaster (TIME, Sept. 14,1925). Great Britain was then planning her R-100, which made a troubled round-trip between England and Canada this summer (TIME, Aug. 11), and her R-101. Lord Thomson had then commented: "If the best minds in England can devise anything to make dirigible flying absolutely safe, these ships will...