Word: wind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long after writing this book, Odon von Horvath was walking along the Champs Elysees in Paris. The usual crowd was all around him, straining against a high wind. It was June, and the trees were gay and green with their new foliage-except for one huge, dying chestnut tree. A sudden gust swept against it. It tottered, cracked, started to fall. Von Horvath, preoccupied, did not hear the people scream as he walked into its shadow. The dead tree crushed him dead, and Odon von Horvath had his wish...
Charles F. Brooks, professor of Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, attributed the freak weather to a current of tropical air flowing north from the Gulf Stream. He reported a maximum wind velocity of 71 miles an hour at the Observatory...
...thunder was caused by a layer of cold air overlying the warm wind, Professor Brooks said...
...paragraph ending under his picture: unless most of Washington et al rhyme it with "Mice," the title to Secretary Ickes' undelivered blast "Loaded Dies" would have gone with the wind...
...Washington, North Carolina's ladies' man, Senator Robert Rice Reynolds said of the selection of British Vivien Leigh to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind: "I vigorously protest against... the selection of a foreigner for this . . . part...