Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last autumn and winter, women-in-politics were concerned over the case of Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, whom New York elected its first woman Secretary of State for the term of 1924-1926 and who was later charged with "misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance" in office by a onetime subordinate (TIME, Feb. 6). Governor Smith ordered an investigation. The investigator strongly recommended prosecution. Women-in-politics feared that the Knapp case might interest the public more because the defendant was a woman than because of what she was alleged to have done...
...army of 120,000. Always Lee divined Grant's plans; always Grant's losses were heavier. The quiet man in gray who never touched tobacco, rarely tasted liquor and never used a curse-word, persistently outguessed the smoking, drinking, swearing leader from the North. All the next winter Grant was held to the line where he had vowed to "fight it out if it takes all summer...
Later than it does to most men, Death came last week to Chauncey Mitchell Depew, after-dinner orator, optimist, railroad lawyer, spectator of U. S. national affairs since the Mexican War, aged 94 years less three weeks. A bronchial infection, picked up after a winter in Florida, turned into pneumonia in Manhattan. Two bishops and a Fifth Avenue rector officiated at the funeral service. Thousands of dignitaries attended or despatched their respects...
Smart folk who plan to visit the Orient, next winter, will seek Japan during the Coronation of His Imperial Majesty the Sublime Tenno Hirohito...
Over the rough and tangled places of the hemispheres trains of men with beasts of burden have forayed during the past winter, as often for sport and recreation as for science. Rich men have vied with institutions to explore, and have made the hardy trips themselves. To do so has become a new fashion...