Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steps of St. Anthony's Hospital, St. Louis, waddled a fat man, one A. E. Phillips. His paunch hung down to his knees, an apron of fat, a masonic ponderosity. Each lift of his thighs made his ample pants toss like garments wind-blown on a wash line. His story...
...foot plateau which is the summit of Mount Helvellyn, third highest eminence (3,118 feet) in England. Later the speck ascended again, soared away. It was Pilot John Leeming Of the Lancashire Aero Club who, with a bonfire on the snow to indicate the wind and crosses marking possible landing sites, sought to demonstrate upon what a small place an airplane can land...
...staff, one of your "thoroughgoing rebukes. . . ." Here is the copy of one of the Musa-Shiya advertisements referred to above: This very nice advertisement Onnounce Out of Musa Shiya the Shirtmaker (Also Many Dry Good Selling) Foulard This croth are favorable of ladies because hot wether now and erectric wind machine. Because hot wether Musa-shiya Shop selling in reduced of price all next week. Come before and obtain service until exhausted. HOW FINDING:-Do not find Musa-shiya Shop until pass away in front Famous Fish Market where makai side King Street. After pass away from Fish Market kinely...
...down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose; and secretaries, peering softly through the door, will tell visitors, "he's in conference." Over their heads Girl Scouts from Waukegan will scream at the wind, and their little brothers will all but dive into New York Harbor at the sight of the liners going...
Their rubbers creaked as they went trudging across the Yard cold with a bitter sweep of wind--and the ice glare upon the steps of Widener. Three of them, Jopes, and Plimpkin and Thwait! The brief cases at their sides bulked heavy...