Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructor who "smelt like a spaniel that's just had a bath," brooded over missing out on a rich, titled Englishman. The Senator's sorrows were bad arteries, a dipsomaniac sister. President Winthrop's "New Age" amateurs swarming over Washington. In spite of the perfect April weather he got to his office in a fit of the blues, moped through the morning over the vanished glories of his past, looked sadly at his trout flies...
...Richmond was gay, prosperous, confident, the established capital of an established civilization. Between Mildred Wade, daughter of an aristocrat, and Brose Kirby, a clerk in her father's tobacco warehouse, was a social abyss nothing short of an earthquake could wipe out. But it was earthquake weather, and both of them felt it. Before Brose marched off to war as a private in the soon-to-be-famed First Virginia Regiment, Mildred sought him out in the dusty camp just to tell him that she would have nothing to do with him. Then came the Battle of Manassas...
Seriously handicapped by adverse weather conditions all season the Cornell crew was the last in the East to begin actual Practice gave this Spring, and the lack of sufficient long workouts was evident when their Varsity eight trailed the Middies by a length last Saturday...
...Like Dell, the old woodpulp publishing firm of Street & Smith keeps a weather eye cocked for new fields to enter. Street & Smith's new picture magazine is a large rotogravure publication exclusively devoted to sport. Launched as a monthly for a dime, Pic offers twelve issues for a dollar, presents action shots of current stars like Joe Di Maggio, Joe Louis, Jim Braddock, oldtimers like Annette Kellerman and Hans ("Honus"') Wagner. Idea of Pic came from its business manager, young A. Lawrence Holmes, Princetonian son of S. & S.'s Vice President Artemas Holmes...
...through the early part of the season the Lions, seriously handicapped by the choppy water which kept them off the larger river, were confined to the Harlem. Then came calmer weather and with it a cessation of those short paddles...