Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled an expert: "The worst morning of the Twelfth known in the North for 20 years." The shooting season's inauspicious opening was not due to bad weather alone. U. S. lessors of Scottish estates were conspicuously few. John Pierpont Morgan was there, as were Tycoons Solomon Guggenheim, John W. Converse and Andrew Watson Armour. But many a moor was barren of beaters. Although bracken has lately been encroaching on the heather it was well filled with healthy...
When newsmen at Zurich, Switzerland last week wondered why Professor Auguste Piccard continued to postpone his balloon ascension into the stratosphere, even when weather appeared favorable, the long-haired, long-necked Belgian professor told them: "I promised Mme Piccard that I would not do anything foolish." In fact Mme Piccard, whose fifth child was born a few months ago, once made her husband promise not to make the flight at all. That was last year, just after he and his assistant, Charles Kipfer, had ballooned 51,700 ft. into the heavens- higher than man had ever before climbed...
Even in Washington Jan. 20 is an inclement date for outdoor ceremonies. Weather charts reveal that its average temperature is 33° compared with 39° for March 4. Its precipitation is also higher. But not all March 4s are balmy. President Taft took the oath of office during an historic blizzard...
...terminus for its big telegraph system. He passed two days meeting with depart mental managers, discussing leases, pur chases, operations. The next day he flew to Amarillo where his company has im portant gas holdings. He looked over their reports, took off again. Twice forced down by bad weather, he caught a train at Winslow, Ariz., continued to Los Angeles. There, in a comfortable suite at the Biltmore, he had little time for rest before his rooms were jammed with attorneys, bankers and accountants. All this excitement was over Richfield Oil Co. of Cali fornia. Mr. Sinclair's company...
...Kansas City, to Congressmen investigating Government interference in private business, Mrs. Ida Watkins, weather-beaten "Wheat Queen" of Sublette, Kan., pulled off her hat. bared a brawny, toil-hardened arm. shouted: "I just want to kick the devil out of the Farm Board. ... I draw the line on the doggone, damnable Government interference with our affairs...