Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old publisher of the Portland Oregonian, ten days ill with grippe, had himself carried to the east bay of his grey stone mansion on Portland's Imperial Heights, to look once more across the city where he had made his fortune. As the late winter sunshine streamed through the window, Henry Lewis Pittock knew that his time was short, knew that his keenest regret was to leave to other hands the great daily he had founded 58 years before. Next night he died, and Portlanders learned that his $7,894,778.33 estate was the largest ever probated...
This year Samborski intends to continue the activities on a larger scale. In addition to the two fall sports there will be basketball and squash leagues during the winter and tennis and soft ball again next spring...
...clubs, which include the Banjo Club, Mandolin Club, Vocal Club, specialty groups, and the Goldcoast Orchestra, will unite in presenting, before the winter recess, a vaudeville show to be played at Cambridge, Salem and New York. Out of the 100 members of the clubs, 48 will make the annual Christmas trip to Buffalo, Detroit, Milwaukee, and elsewhere, for the first five days of vacation...
...when first written. For old as folk drama is the tale of warm-hearted Lightnin' Bill Jones, who loafs as chronically as Rip van Winkle, lies as outrageously as Tartarin of Tarascon. Typical whopper: how he drove a swarm of bees across a prairie in the dead of winter without losing...
...despite her greying hair, started on a brand new job as "roving reporter," covering U. S. and international high life for the rival New York Mirror and more than 100 other papers lined up by King Features Syndicate. First assignment : to survey the prospects for socialite Manhattan's winter "season." With the new job went a new by-line (her real name) and a whopping jump in pay (from about $175 a week...