Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the twirling wind blew away, inhabitants counted 41 dead...
Lamentably enough, important wars are no longer fought on horseback. Cavalry no longer rides, carrying flags, through forests at night, or gallops, in a wind of fluttering colors, to an engagement as beautiful as a game. Cavalry is still important as a scouting service. but it rides furtively, on horses sometimes painted for concealment...
...England a man was blown off London Bridge to drown in the Thames; and the statue of King Richard the Lion Hearted in Old Palace Yard, between the House of Lords and Westminster Abbey, lost His Majesty's sword which the wind snapped off at the hilt. Landsmen's deaths in Europe totaled 25. The South American cyclone slew 41 Argentines, injured 150, swept away 200,000 acres of crops...
Though a blasting wind swept across the field and the men were drenched to the skin after the first 45 minutes of play--there being two halfs of 45 minutes each--the men simply wandered about the field during intermission. There were no rubdowns, there was no hot broth: for no quarters or dressing rooms were then in use. Until 1881 there was no medical supervisor nor any physical trainer. That year also witnessed the coming to Harvard of its first football coach, yet systematic coaching was not instituted until Captain W.A. Brooks '87 appointed F.A. Mason '84 coach...
...Wind: Lillian Gish's lovely acting in a good prairie-story; White Shadows in the South Seas: Photography and natives; While the City Sleeps: Lon Chancy with a detective's badge and his own teeth; The Singing Fool (Jolson): Mammy on the Vitaphone; Kriemhild's Revenge: A sequel to Siegfried...