Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kneeling figure of George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, and for this occasion a papal legate in a gold mitre and cloth of gold cope. Be fore him stood a tall ostensorium worth $35,000, an altar vessel made of gold objects, diamonds and other jewels donated last winter by thousands of Louisiana Catholics...
Died. Sylva Eugenie Davis, 20, courageous paralytic, in her sleep; in Kansas City. Suffering from spastic paralysis (the nerve tracts in the neck region of her spinal cord were injured at birth, causing muscular rigidity), she decided last winter to take the 50-50 chance of a surgical operation which might help her, might kill her (TIME, March...
Motormaker Sloan said he expected consumer buying to be "substantially improved over that existing during the past few months.... To assist in carrying on its stabilization of employment program, the corporation will again build substantial inventories in excess of retail demand during the winter months. . . ." Not to be outdone, President K. T. Keller of Chrysler Corp. announced the rehiring of 34,000 men since August 1, the restoration of March salary cuts. Said he: "Current business is brisk. . . . Stocks of cars in dealers' hands are 31,500 today, as against 98,000 at this time a year...
...collaboration, suggests the most fleet- footed girl at a prom dancing with a corpulent middle-aged professor who has hopefully taken a few lessons from Arthur Murray. To the story of Xieuw Amsterdam in the days of peg-legged Pieter Stuyvesant. the famed author of Mary of Scotland and Winter set has contributed a thick Dutch cheese of a book, while Composer Weill (Johnny Johnson) has filled Knickerbocker Holiday with gay, spirited, catchy tunes...
Ever since last winter the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo has acted like a French Cabinet in a crisis. Only expert bystanders have been able to puzzle out its complicated tangle of splits, mergers, lawsuits, reorganizations. Last week, as the troupe, now sponsored by Universal Art, Inc., started its U.S. season in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, balletgoers got their first chance to see the practical results of this confusion and commotion...