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With their new riches, the Trapps "bought a view" in Vermont. A few weeks after they moved in, the old farmhouse came down in a windstorm. They have rebuilt it into a handsome, 20-room Tyrolean manor house. In winter, while the family is on concert tour, the house will be used as a hostelry for skiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Family Life in Vermont | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...same time, a combination sleet, snow, rain and windstorm began driving across 16 states of the Midwest and Northeast. It was a sneaky, sloppy storm, full of windy obscenities. Its rain turned snowy roads to frigid mush, it iced everything it touched and hexed everything it missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Dirty Week | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...that falls into the briny deep. And that, in toto, is all there is to it. Just to make things a bit easier for the duller cinema-goer a convenient cue to the action has been supplied whenever anything important is about to happen the weather always produces a windstorm or a fog or a thunderstorm. When nothing important is going on the weather clears off, naturally. Garson's back and you can have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/7/1947 | See Source »

Compensation. In North Adelaide, Australia, a windstorm scared a delivery-man's horse into running away, but also blew the deliveryman ahead of the horse in time to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 3, 1945 | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

Providence. In Elberton, Ga., a windstorm hit a church that had been leaning badly for years, set it back straight again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

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