Word: typhoons
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...Lindberghs bade farewell to friends in Tokyo, flew around a typhoon to Osaka for a brief visit in Kyoto on their way to Nanking...
...Japanese style. They took off their shoes and sat on the floor. Between courses they watched geisha girls dance. While Mrs. Hurley, well-traveled daughter of an admiral, nimbly manipulated her chopsticks, her Oklahoma husband had to fumble with a fork. At Shanghai, despite the season's worst typhoon, Secretary Hurley went ashore at the jetty, reviewed a battalion of U. S. Marines, got soaking wet. Under a Chinese umbrella Mrs. Hurley shopped in Nanking Road, marveled at bargains due to the low exchange rate. And finally last week after 24 days' journeying the President Cleveland steamed into...
...typhoon season. After furious storms, the Grand Canal (running north and south between Hangchow and Tientsin) gave way in 15 places and washed out the thriving city of Yang-chow; 200.000 were reported killed, 6,000,000 more made homeless...
...Provincetown. When the fog finally lifted, there was almost no wind; the boats drifted along the rough elbow of the Cape till dark. Word came that Michabo had run aground on Shovelful Shoal off the upper tip of Long Island; then that H.G. Leslie's 40-footer Typhoon, mistaking the headlights of cars for harbor lights, had run aground on the ocean shore across the Cape from Provincetown. Vanitie, Valiant and many another were towed into Provincetown harbor; the rest, tacking slowly against a light head wind, made port late that night or the next day, when no races...
...four days nearly five feet of rain fell in Manila last week, almost a record even for the Philippines. The rain, plus the edge of a China Sea typhoon, plus the highest tide of the year flooded two-thirds of the city, rendered 3,000 homeless. Police and native canoes evacuated the drenched inhabitants...