Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been deliberately planned by her publicity-wise husband George Palmer Putnam, Amelia Earhart's solo flight from Honolulu to the U. S. last week could not have been more perfectly timed. A weekend recess in the Hauptmann trial cleared the front pages of the U. S. Press for a good spot-news story. To fill that void at that conspicuous moment was a bit of showmanship of which Publicist Putnam might well have been proud...
Latest bulletins yesterday indicated a heavy snow fall throughout. New England, with fair and colder weather in store for weekend skiers. Mount Washington reported four inches at the summit and 23 inches at Pinkham Notch...
...feet of snow have been reported at Crawford Notch, which is the destination of this week's snow train. All these depths will probably be altered, however, by the heavy snow fall, which bodes well for the weekend skiing...
Flora, a beautiful and well-to-do woman verging on spinsterhood, had the dangerous idea of inviting all her friends for a weekend. Her friends, like most lovely women's friends, were not friends; some of them were enthusiastic enemies. They arrived, in various stages of intoxication, exhaustion and disgust, sank further into their emotional states when they saw who their fellow-guests were. The happily married scientists were embarrassed, tried not to show it. The mousy banker, Flora's tame cat, who had been picked up by a golddigger en route, had no eyes for anyone...
...weekend also disclosed that the Council will accept the responsibility for clearing up the confusion shrouding the elections. Thus any decision which it makes may be regarded as final...