Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently Heurtley, who was forced to leave college because of ill health, was making a spectacular effort to reach the Sunny South in time for the winter season on the beaches of Florida. Whether his discovery by the Coast Guard cutter will terminate his venture has not yet been determined...
Heurtley, who lived at 14 Garden Street last year, was forced to leave school because of poor health. All indications seemed to prove that his latest venture was a frantic effort to reach Palm Beach before the height of the winter season...
Charles A. Rheinstorm, vice president of American, answered: "It is definitely not true that we have a higher peak on our airway than United has on theirs.'' Mr. Patterson's remark about sunshine hurt Mr. Rheinstorm. "People usually concede that winter weather in the south is better than winter weather in the north, and the only people who are not willing to concede that are the United people...
...winter lecture season got under way, one plain fact was apparent from the topics chosen for speeches, the fees paid lecturers, the types of writers who proved popular. It was that the taste of U. S. audiences had been rapidly changing. A few years ago sex and psychology were major lecture subjects, with travel adventure of the type popularized by Richard Halliburton running them a close third. This year's audiences will hear little sex but much politics, fewer accounts of adventures in Africa but many discussions on how to make friends, how to influence people, how to conquer...
After his death in 1901, a brief, old-fashioned travel diary was found among Bishop Whipple's papers. When he was 21, ill-health had driven him South for the winter, on a long, tedious, weakening journey. He went from New York to Savannah on a first-class merchantman, from Savannah to St. Augustine by steamer, across Georgia "on the worst railroad ever invented," by river boat from New Orleans to St. Louis, up the Ohio on the crowded, dirty Goddess of Liberty ("anything but a goddess," wrote young Whipple sourly). by stage ("far pleasanter than on a rail...