Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thrilling and even contest, a real by Gross clinching the encounter. Most of Harvard's players in that game will be back in action tomorrow, which seems to give Harvard the edge, but last year's Dartmouth Freshman sextet was unusually strong, and has contributed several stars to this winter's team...
...that Secretary Hoover, businessman, ran most of the labor affairs of the Cabinet. When the conference on unemployment was held in 1921, Mr. Hoover dominated it, causing Clinton W. ("Mirrors") Gilbert to remark that "the finest example of the unemployed at it was the Secretary of Labor." Last winter during the anthracite coal strike, President Coolidge and Mr. Hoover continually let it be known that they were healing the difficulties. Mr. Davis was crowded out of the picture. But, at the end when both the strikers and employers were approaching exhaustion, Mr. Davis suggested peace...
...Lloyd George has visited the French Riviera for his health al most every winter; but this year, for the first time since his eclipse as Premier, he was officially welcomed and fêted near Saint Raphael by the local Prefect and representatives of the French Government. "I was astonished," said Mr. Lloyd George afterwards. "I tell you they'll be naming a street after me next...
...courteous Prefect, M. Cameau, did not welcome Mr. Lloyd George under the mistaken impression that his power is on the rebound in England. It is not. But the British coal strike has disrupted the business of thousands of Britons who would formerly have been able to afford a winter vacation on the Riviera. They have not come to Cannes, Nice, "Mo te,"* or Mentone. Therefore the arrival of Mr. Lloyd George was an occasion for demonstrating that tourists are excessively welcome...
...from Russia at Riga, Latvia, last week, in good spirits and good health. Since May 19, 1924, he has been, upon his own statement, successively imprisoned and detained without trial upon the mere suspicion that he had furthered anti-Bolshevist plots in the Caucasus. He declared that during the winter of 1925 he was imprisoned on Solovetsky Island, where 3,000 of his 7,000 fellow prisoners died "from insufficient food and intolerable treatment...