Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...color spread unprecedented in a 10? magazine, LIFE gave its readers three pages of prints from the work of Kansas' John Steuart Curry. In brilliant, accurate reproduction were seen the famed U. S. artist's Line Storm, bad weather brooding on a wide Western landscape; Tornado Over Kansas, in which a family tumble into their storm cellar; Sanctuary, which shows farm animals huddling from a flood on an islet; and two of Mr. Curry's celebrated circus paintings: Elephants and The Flying Codonas...
...places as the Hotel Taft lobby and the Graduate Club are scenes of unusual festivity and gayety. The air is pervaded with a keen excitement and strains of Yale and Harvard football songs reach the ear from all quarters. The only anxiety which is in evidence is over the weather situation, as rooters for both sides have absolute confidence in the powers of their respective teams. Eyes are constantly turned toward the sky where a misty moon gives some hope for a line day tomorrow...
...This election demonstrated that the power of the press to sway public opinion in this country is dying if not dead . . . that people read newspapers these days to get facts-baseball and football and stockmarket scores, weather reports, facts from the fighting fronts and the war medicine distilleries, shopping tips-but that they either don't read or don't rely on editorials...
...Pirate is a condensation of the diary of Mr. William Bulkeley, a Welsh squire of the 18th Century. For 26 years this pugnacious, high-spirited, cranky old landowner kept a day-to-day record of his affairs, with little more to note than the state of his crops, the weather, his many unsuccessful lawsuits, his trips to Dublin, his impatience with the government, his troubles with his irresponsible son. A widower, Mr. Bulkeley had a 20-year-old son and a 21-year-old daughter when he began his diary. Blowing up about debts, lawyers and parsons, as methodically...
...fortune after his death. Fortunatus Wright, it seemed, had another wife. Presently Mr. Bulkeley's destitute grandchildren began to straggle back to Wales, first two, then their mother, then three more, until the old gentleman lamented his "troublesome days" and stopped writing about anything except the weather...