Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare Carnival, but plenty of people found time to be original down at the June Sunday afternoon. There was talk of the gallant efforts of the Carnival Committee, among people who knew how hard it had worked, and everywhere people were marvelling at the excellence of the weather, of the women, of the whimsy,-of the Carnival...
...have benefited by the redistribution of funds produced by wagers, won and lost, on the next sport to be glorified by the versatile female athlete who posed for a gasoline company as "Power," "Speed," and "Balance," in successive months. Undoubtedly bill-board advertisements, like traveling salesmen and muddy weather, being unpredictable, have added glamor to life, and being thoroughly vexing, strength to the human character...
...expensive Blackstone Hotel. It was the honored guest of Mrs. Ben Rubenstein, wife of a British timber merchant. As Conchita Supervia, Mrs. Rubenstein was in Chicago to sing Carmen with the Civic Opera Company. The turtle was her talisman.* Never before had she found one sturdy enough to weather touring. She had always depended on a little silver turtle, the insignia of the Orden de la Tortuga of which ex-King Alfonso of Spain and the late Dictator Primo de Rivera were charter members. The grandfather turtle (age 14) had been given her when she landed in Manhattan by Grandmother...
...beady eyes of the Japanese popped with disgust. Astonished Norwegians mopped their faces and unbuttoned their sweaters, too polite to mention the weather. The Swedes, disconsolate, nibbled brown beans, salt herring, oatmeal and knackebrod which they had carried all the way from Stockholm. An unprecedented thaw at Lake Placid, N. Y., had spoiled the ice, melted the snow, made practice for the Olympic Games, which begin Feb. 4, impossible. Undiscouraged by this dismal turn of events, the Olympic Committee announced the full schedule of events...
...what caused the most beaming of all was the constant stream of visitors to the Show. Unusually warm, springlike weather may have boosted the figures. But all exhibitors marveled when it became apparent that attendance was greater than in any year since 1927. How many cars were sold against last year cannot be known, but dealers agreed there was a greater "buying interest"-people who did not actually buy were willing to give their names and addresses for future sales-talks. And many a company reported actual sales gain. Among them was ever-sensational Auburn, reporting that for the first...