Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...file, like sausages linked out over a gutter of lard. Reefered sailors dog-trotted up and down the long iron decks; flapped their cold arms against their bodies, like turkeys trying to fly to a shed roof; dared not pull off their mittens to blow their noses. There was wind and snow. Men hunched up their shoulders and pulled their necks into sweater collars. Like horses miserable in a gale, they turned their backs to the blowing...
...soldiers often suffer. As the warriors of Bologna prepared one time to sally forth against the Milanese, he conceived the notion of supplying many of them with chopped beef, pork and veal, seasoned and stuffed tightly into the intestinal tubing of a pig. He showed them how they might wind this provender about their necks or waists to carry it easily; how they might tie and cut it in short lengths to share with their fellows or ration themselves. The invention met with instant and universal approval...
...result of all these cases investigated by the Senate Committee; the wind of suspicion shifted to Attorney General Daugherty. He was tried for contempt of court; and shortly afterwards M. A. Daugherty, and Eing were calloff to the stand on a bribery charge in the Alien Property Custodian question...
...Speech. It was before this monument that President Coolidge doffed his hat, shed his overcoat; faced a biting wind, radio transmitters, 150,000 people; orated. His one pronouncement of policy was that the U. S. would not enter the World Court unless the Senate reservations were accepted in toto. He said in part...
Major de Bernardi landed his Macchi Fiat monoplane. He was strapped in with a separate loop for each arm and leg, the whole contrivance fastening with a buckle on his chest. He creased his wind-stiffened face into a smile for the photographers. In the timers' stand, beside a direct wire to Rome, Luigi Freddi, special correspondent of Dictator Mussolini's paper Popolo d'ltalia, sent his news. Before the race the Dictator had sent Major Bernardi a message, couched in his customary Napoleo-Caesarian rhetoric: "All Italy prays for your success". . . . Now Major de Bernardi made...