Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave their names as Mr. & Mrs. Will Hebner moved into a farmhouse about seven miles from the dusty little town of Pocahontas, Ark. Most conspicuous feature of the Hebner ménage was a large sign which said NO VISITORS WANTED. Pocahontas townsfolk took the hint until last winter, when both Hebners ceased to be seen and a flock of buzzards was observed wheeling over their establishment. Neighbors then found that the most conspicuous feature of the interior of the Hebner menage was a man's corpse lying in the storm cellar. The corpse-apparently several months...
...Madison Square Garden last week. Gargantua out-ballyhooed a whole battalion of new acts, out-ballyhooed Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck, who appeared- elephantastically in a howdah-for the first time in any circus, out-ballyhooed John & Henry Ringling North who, after payment of $823,000, last winter brought back into the Ringling family control of the circus it lost to creditors six years...
...golfing addicts paid as much heed to the past-performance charts of golf pros as racing addicts give to form sheets, no one would have been surprised last week when, at the close of the winter circuit, the Professional Golfers Association announced the top money-winners of the season. Leading the field for the second year in a row was British-born Harry Cooper of Chicopee, Mass., never yet Open champion but generally considered the most expert golfer...
Little replaces Professor James P. Baxter 3rd, who resigned last year to become President of Williams College. During the fall and winter Raphael Demos, assistant professor of Philosophy, was Acting Master of Adams House...
When a gymnasium instructor at the International Y. M. C. A. College, Springfield, Mass., set his class to tossing a soccer ball through two bottomless peach baskets one winter afternoon in 1891, he had no idea he was inventing what was to become the most popular U. S. winter sport, basketball. Instructor James A. Naismith was just trying to keep his restless charges from getting bored. The class took to his pastime with such enthusiasm that the Y. M. C. A. began teaching basketball in other cities. By 1893 the game had been brought to Detroit...