Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sunny winter day (Feb. 7, 1937) that President Roosevelt delightedly stunned the country with his Supreme Court Plan, one Senator withdrew from the ranks of his huffing & puffing colleagues, sought out a secluded leather chair, thoughtfully drank a Scotch-&-soda which he later described as "a foot high...
...such a big-time Nazi. While in London he sought out Robert Spear Hudson, British Government economic expert and Secretary for Overseas Trade. Not a member of the Cabinet, Mr. Hudson nevertheless is one of His Majesty's Ministers. He led a "revolt"' of junior ministers last winter against the Cabinet's dilatory rearmament policy and, although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would "fight and beat" Germany at her own game. Like...
...planet used to be ascribed to foliage of that color. A more favored explanation nowadays is chemical absorption of oxygen in the soil-that is, oxidation or "rusting" of the Martian terrain. But the dark patches on the planet's surface grow heavier and more distinct in winter, change from blue-green in summer to chocolate brown in winter. These changes strongly suggest vegetation. The potent chemical compound called chlorophyll is present in all the green plants of Earth, but spectroscopic analysis of the Martian patches has failed to disclose chlorophyll there. However, chlorophyll is simply the efficient catalyst...
...Winter Carnival (United Artists-Walter Wanger). Ann Sheridan, born Clara Lou Sheridan in Dallas, Tex. 24 years ago, left college for Hollywood when she won a Paramount "Search for Beauty" contest in her neighborhood in 1933. After two years on the Paramount payroll, during which she failed to set any celluloid on fire, she was dropped, spent a year looking for a job. Warner Bros, put her under contract in 1936. Last year the Warners, envious with the rest of Hollywood of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's glamorous Hedy Lamarr, started circulating glamorous photographs of Ann Sheridan, her red hair...
...When winter came there was a feast! ". . . The high meat of the 'idiwitsi' [long dead seal] is the most highly prized of all foods, native or imported. There was no halfheartedness about the men as each one proceeded to hack away an enormous portion for himself. Little by little a powerful odour pervaded the whole hut. . . . [Others] were cutting up, carving, drinking large handfuls of sticky blood, shouting, licking their fingers, masticating, swallowing, stuffing themselves with meat and fat, sucking at fragments of intestine. . . . Men, women and children alike were besmeared with purplish blood." Author Victor...