Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made to point out that, in claiming credit for tax reductions and in expenditures and the cost of government, Federal officials are taking advantage of the fact that the country is no longer in war period. To claim credit for that is just like claiming credit for good weather...
...ditches half full of water being dug by Chinese coolies wearing tin helmets- the boy wrapped in an army blanket and covered by a weather-worn Union Jack, carried on their shoulders by four slipping stretcher-bearers. A strange scene-the great-great-grandson of Paul Revere under a British flag, and awaiting him a group of some six or eight American Army medical officers -saddened with thoughts of his father...
...last two courts of the season were held at Buckingham Palace. The weather, which throughout Ascot was scorching hot, became raw cold overnight ; but in no sense were the brilliant functions at the Palace impeded...
...sunken vessel is a strong room; in the strong room $4,000,000 in gold and silver bullion. The sea-gropers knew just where to cut through the side of the hull. Weather permitting, they planned to hoist out the 30 tons of treasure in great wicker baskets lifting a ton at a time. Two weeks they estimated the job would take them, before they sailed back to New York to enrich their backers with a 10,000% profit...
...best one among them-Miss Cecil Leitch-withdrew because of the hot weather...