Word: winters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popping corks is music of the sweetest; others fancy the tones of their own voice as reverberated by the tiled walls of a bathroom; to a man who truly loves his work even the angry, mosquito-like whine of an alarm-clock in the raw dusk of a winter morning may be welcome. But partisans of these noises generally realize that friends might be seriously offended if forced to share their taste, particularly if the friends desired at the moment only to sleep. Using such instances as parallels, certain tenants of apartment houses on Park Avenue, Manhattan, last week maligned...
...every morning when the Church of St. Paul begins to announce determinedly that time is passing. Why avoid nine o'clock if this tactless timepiece is going to insist on such an unpleasant fact early and often? If one relies on the chimes, they are sure to hibernate in winter; and the time they indicate is always more original than accurate...
...years ago on the Freshman team Coady played fullback and did the punting. In the winter he captained the 1927 hockey team...
...Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will hold its winter banquet in the Faculty Room of the Union tonight. The banquet itself is scheduled for 7 o'clock, and following it, will take place the presentation of the keys and scrolls to the newly elected members of the society...
...centre of culture and the arts, there is still another reason behind the great pianist's visit. Hagerstown is near Washington, D.C.; and people who want to hear Paderewski can easily get over by bus or motor. In fact, if they expect to hear him this winter, this is just what they will have to do, for Paderewski will not play in Washington...