Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shining Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Triangle drama, recklessly adapted from Keith Winter's play, about a cabaret dancer (Joan Crawford) who marries an aristocrat (Melvyn Douglas) and falls in love with his brother (Robert Young...
...summer people get encephalitis ("sleeping sickness") and poliomyelitis ("infantile paralysis"). In the winter people get sore throats, running noses, influenza. The fact that there are no pandemics of colds in the summer or infantile paralysis in the winter set Dr. Charles Armstrong, virus expert of the U. S. Public Health Service, to thinking. It set him thinking even harder when mice, inoculated with sleeping sickness virus, died just as often at temperatures of 42° F. as they did at temperatures of 95° F. Since sleeping sickness and infantile paralysis both enter the body through the nose, Dr. Armstrong...
...printed by the Southern Methodist Publishing House in Nashville, Tenn. They were sold in no time. By last week this pocket-size quarterly (10? to 50?, depending upon binding) had broken all records in U. S. religious publishing. No 1938 issue had run under 1,000,000 copies. The winter issue, out last week and advertised as suitable for Christmas greetings, will reach 1,250,000. Altogether, nearly 10,000,000 copies have been sold...
...backbone of U. S. cockfighting are the sub rosa hack fights and mains. What went on at an abandoned farmhouse outside Fayetteville, N. C. last week was typical of hundreds of bootleg cockfights that will take place every Saturday and Sunday this winter. Some 250 fans, who had reached the rendezvous by secret signs, sat on tiers of benches around a sand-covered circular pit. Eagerly they watched two handlers with bright-colored cocks on their arms advance to the centre of the pit, let their fighters peck at one another to get up their dander. There were no bookmakers...
Skiers who travel by automobile will be glad to know that the system of patrols inaugurated last winter in the south-western part of New Hampshire began yesterday, according to Alfred E. White, engineer of Division 9 to Keene, New Hampshire...