Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bases in those early days. They possessed, in comparison with the uses for which they were required, almost a superfluity of destroyers . . . and they could not have put them to a better use than in an attack on Scapa Flow during the early months of the 1914-15 winter.-The late Admiral Earl Jellicoe...
...that in this war Germany is not going to repeat the omission that so puzzled Admiral Jellicoe last time. The great battle bases of the British Fleet-Scapa Flow and Rosyth in the Firth of Forth (bombed last fortnight-will, doubtless be prime targets for Germany all this winter...
Since King Gustaf has reached such a great age, many of the burdens of the Crown are now borne by big-boned, vigorous Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, who has been acting as Regent every winter while His Majesty vacations on the Riviera, sipping champagne with attractive French mondaines and finding that at tennis almost everyone who plays with him, from Mile Suzanne Lenglen to the current Swedish champion, Tarsten Fronfors, has an understandable tendency to lose games and sets to this grand old royal democrat they like so much...
...Brook, 41, took the news of his prize calmly. He has been giving shows, winning medals, selling pictures to museums for 17 years. For even longer he has been married to sharp-nosed, sharp-witted Caricaturist Peggy Bacon. Artist Brook painted Georgia Jungle on a trip to Savannah last winter, finished it in three or four days. At Los Angeles, where he is teaching at the Otis Art Institute, Painter Brook told an interviewer last week: "To me it was a sad scene, and I guess I like sad things. . . . What does anyone do with $1,000? Pay bills...
Cambridge, Oct. 28 (WUPS)--When Sommers comes can Winter be far behind? Especially since the Gardiner Sayres, "Things Orr turnin' Brown in the Grover Earle this year...