Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis, every year the Municipal Theatre Association presents twelve weeks of outdoor opera. This year there were record-breaking receipts despite the most wretched weather conditions encountered since 1919. Total attendance was over a half million. The repertory consisted of one opera (Tales of Hoffman) often included in the New York Metropolitan repertory and the following light operas: Robin Hood, Princess Pat, Sari, Song of the Flame, Red Mill, Rose Marie, The Mikado, The Dollar Princess, Katinka...
...book is filled with colorful people, rainbow scenery, amazing weather. The lean, kind, sandy figure of Kit Carson welcomes the Bishop at Taos. Navajos, Zuñis, Acomas, remnants of the cleanly pueblo tribes, move quietly about in smaller villages, vivid as their blankets and pottery, drawn with the patient accuracy of an archeologist. Cornelian hills circle Santa Fé, where the cathedral arises like a golden butte. Windstorms smother the bishop on the plains, cloudbursts drench him among the peaks...
...just after the new United States of America had fairly started on its history, stockbrokers met under a buttonwood tree at No. 68 Wall St. When the weather was good they swapped securities and stories and breathed the fresh air from New York Harbor. When it was bad they met in nearby coffee taverns. By 1817 public participation in corporate enterprises had grown to the point where the brokers found it expedient to rent the front room on the second floor of the house of one George F. Vaupell at No. 40 Wall St. It cost $200 but this included...
Last week a telephone tinkled in the London residence of the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim. It was Captain Hamilton calling from Upavon, Wiltshire. The weather reports were favorable. His plane, the St. Raphael, was ready. Her maid hastily packed two brief cases, two red hat boxes, a little wicker basket and bundled them into a motor. The Princess entered the automobile and ordered speed...
...through fog with 1,000 feet maximum altitude, gave up temporarily the transatlantic flight, returned to Le Bourget. ¶Capt. F. T. Courtney, English flyer, waited almost all summer to make the treacherous westward passage across the Atlantic in his flying boat, The Whale. With autumn coming and weather chances fading, he hopped off from Plymouth, England. Fearing the dangerous northern route on which were lost Nungesser and Coli, and the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, Courtney steered for the Azores. Head winds and thick weather fought with him. Cautious, he turned his ship and came down on the Spanish coast. With...