Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Jacob Astor Jr. (as the Rex left Nice three hours behind schedule, carrying a French shipment of $1,000,000 in bonds): "Nice weather...
Work with the Freshman crews is progressing rapidly under the favoring influences of perfect weather and excellent material. Coach Haines plans to make some changes in his crews this week with an eye to getting his men all out of the Leviathan and into barges. Those who are now rowing in the barges will undoubtedly be transferred to shells and the better portions of the Leviathan's crew will advance to the seats vacated by the barge men. While a few novices will still remain in the training ship it is hoped to have them all out by the next...
...pleased pair now bore eastward toward Winter Harbor to see what might lie there. Near Winter Harbor they found three herds of musk oxen and an old Eskimo settlement. Reported Adventurer Verville: "These Eskimos have milk-white skins, except where their face and hands have become tanned and weather-beaten...
...crescendo jitters, Milestone gets no illusion. The characters are not damp to the skin. Their clothes do not stick clammily to their flanks. The food does not spoil. Green mold does not sprout on everything. The heat is not heat at all. Faces are unsweated. Appetites are healthv. The weather does not. as in the play, exhaust the characters of energy, ravel out their nerves. Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) is no longer a harlot. She is a dull girl with an unfortunate past. Joan Crawford works hard but looks too wholesome and collegiate to suit the part. The basic trouble...
This is the weather which the Vagabond, like Mr. Hardy and his cookoo, prefers. For the autumn rain has been upon us, and left the chill of autumn in the air. Summer is alive in his mind but the Vagabond turns a speculative eye on the orchards where the russet apples are growing ripe. Over the moors by the sea the gulls are still crying, but the sandpiper is gone from the shore. The sea-weed sways among the brown rocks, and the sun goes down in purple...