Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line Bob Green, Gibby Winter, and Red Daughters will divide the end posts between them. Alex Kevorkian, mentioned on several all-American teams, will hold down one tackle position. The other may be taken over by Joe Nee who played guard last year most of the time, or possibly by Wilson. That leaves Booth as a substitute tackle. Captain Russ Allen will have things his own way as one guard leaving the other for either Nee or Boston...
...Wanger that in building a show on women's styles, he managed to make the styles sufficiently sound to be featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan's 7th Avenue who were asked last winter to guess what women would be wearing this fall, Hollywood designers Omar (né Alexander) Kiam, Irene and Helen Taylor turned out most of the dresses, gowns and coats for Vogues of 1938. Manhattan's supersmart John-Frederics and Sally Victor did the hats, Jaeckel the furs. Through...
Offered as an "outstanding educational program in the form of entertainment of great popular appeal," The Headless Horseman suffered even more from overbilling than it did from the thunderstorm which made its reception almost inaudible. It was written last winter for music students of the Bronxville, N. Y. High School to perform and when he wrote it the author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning John Brown's Body was obviously versifying in the lighter mood of his Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully...
...northern New Jersey sea coast one winter's day in 1868, Rev. William B. Osborne, Methodist minister and onetime Philadelphia marble dealer, left his horse & buggy on the highway, wandered among sand dunes, knelt in prayer. There, during the following summer, he put up a tent, held religious services. Later, with a pious Manhattan brush maker named James A. Bradley, he formed the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, began selling lots. Ocean Grove prospered...
...pockmarked Russian exile named Serafimov came out alive after his flight across China, those words expressed all that he had distilled out of his experience. Expelled with six other Europeans by the Bolsheviks from "the very middle of Asia," later held in custody in Aqsu. Serafimov had spent a winter in a particularly colorful environment of Asiatic depravity, had fallen in love with a haggard Russian prostitute and, having finally touched the lowest depth of despair and loneliness, had attained a lasting state of grace by strangling a companion fugitive...