Word: winters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Alexandra retains this "dower house," in which she and King Edward spent the first years of their married life. For many months she has lived in retirement at Sandringham, where her daughter Queen Maud of Norway paid her a long visit last winter...
...Targuist, little village on the northern slope of the Atlas Range, Abd-el-Krim, Riffian chief, was reported to be literally digging himself in for the winter. A subterranean refuge large enough to allow his automobile to enter and turn freely about has been constructed. And a star-shaped series of radiating trenches and dugouts extending for several miles has made of Targuist a stronghold which the Riffians are reported to consider impregnable. Cables assert that Abd-el-Krim has transported thither his treasures, arms, captives. Apparently Targuist is to replace Ajdir as his capital...
General Naulin and the staff of the French High Command will winter at Rabat, on the Atlantic coastline, a few miles north of Casablanca. There they will be well out of the muck and unpleasantness, but at the same time on the direct railroad to Fez and the embroiled uplands. General Boichut, commanding the extreme southern end of the French line, will likewise be exceedingly comfortable at Algiers on the Mediterranean. Meanwhile General Marty will be marooned high and wet at Taza; and Generals Pruneau, Hergault and Billotte will occupy a series of sloshy, uncomfortable positions to the west...
...flopped twice, and lay still. Mary Lewis gave singing lessons to the soubrets and earned enough to buy a ticket to the Coast. After her season with Christie Comedies, she got an engagement with the Greenwich Village Follies, then with Mr. Ziegfeld's. It was during her second winter in Manhattan that she studied languages, opera roles. Last summer in Paris Otto Kahn heard her sing a selection which was not "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam." He arranged an audience with Manager Gatti...
Closely following the release of the University hockey schedule, the Athletic Association has announced this winter's program for the Freshmen puck-chasers...