Word: winters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once a year the "fastest ship in the world" is taken off the transatlantic express service. In order that U. S. babbitts may dash once around the Mediterranean and back to work, the Mauretania makes that circuit every winter at a speed considerably above that of Balkan express trains...
Commander-in-Chief Berenguer of the Spanish forces in Morocco has been personally directing a series of operations which were reported last week to have completely dislodged the Riffian artillery which has been desultorily peppering Tetuan from the hills throughout the winter. The citizens of Tetuan have grown thoroughly tired of this endless haphazard bombardment, though it was featured by several interesting "freak shots," such as the escape of an old woman unhurt when a shell destroyed the sewing machine at which she was seated...
East Lynne. William Winter it was who remarked that this play has caused more tears than the Civil War. It was first produced 64 years ago, and through all the remaining years of the last century extracted weeps and hisses from our forefathers. They say that wandering companies still play the gaudy narrative in wayside opera houses. It is safe to say that Manhattan has not seen a production for 20 years...
...starry gaze followed a little wearily the incessant circlers. A bronzed well-dressed little man kept jumping up and down in his seat. It was Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting the Ovis poll. He studied his program and laughed at some of the names. Were Grimm and Winter freezing the others out? What about the good team of Egg and Eaton? Yes, they were badly scrambled, he was told. He smirked briefly and recomposed his face. His father, he reminded himself hastily, would never have laughed at a pun like that...
...front now, pedaling like a maniac. Georgetti relieved him. Egg was at Georgetti's shoulder. McNamara relieved Georgetti. A pistol cracked-McNamara had won his third successive six-day race (2,109 miles). And the Beckman-Stockholm team was second. Wambst-Lacquehay, Walker-MoBeath, Grimm-Winter-third, fourth and fifth-tumbled into their pits, having done their furious best for 146 hours to win some of the prize money so that some day perhaps they would be able to afford-a carriage...