Word: winters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading south, last fortnight, President-Reject Alfred Emanuel Smith paused at Savannah, Ga., to slide down a brass pole and thereby amuse southern firemen. Last week at Sarasota, Fla., winter headquarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, he fed loaves of bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites...
...party died on Wrangel Island. In 1921, four men and Ada Blackjack, Eskimo sempstress, tried to live on the island. All but Miss Blackjack died. And dead, probably, are the Russian colonists sent there two years ago. A Russian relief ship, the Stavropol, tried to reach them this winter. Last week the Stavropol's captain, back at his Siberian base, reported that he had not been able to break through the Arctic...
...ambitious new Coffee House was devoted to a great Exchange Floor, but this probably saw little business, for according to the contemporary account of Caleb Snow, the merchants preferred to follow in the way of their fathers, and meet more informally on State Street, "even in the inclement winter months." But the tavern achieved a place in the scheme of things in a number of ways. No expense had been spared to provide every convenience for the merchants. The seven story pile was surmounted by a dome which a periodical of the day describes as "elegant and spacious, . . . 100 feet...
...cold ta be out now. I no lika dis weather. I stay home mosta da time, but today, she be warm, so I go out. Mosta da time stay home three months in cold weather smokka ma pipe. No mon' in da winter. Well, just lettle, mebbery," and Joe chuckled as he stooped on all fours to pick up a penny tossed under his wagon by a Mt. Auburn Street resident...
...winter of 1927, with the approaching promotion of the late Director to the rank of emeritus, it was felt that the time had come when modernization of the Museum, and its rearrangement into the still greater teaching implement, which the Division had long deserved, should at last be undertaken. Dr. S. K. Lothrop '15, who has done distinguished scientific work and was in the employ of the American Museum in New York, was invited to succeed, and he accepted the position. In the spring of last year, after having had an opportunity of estimating the condition of the Museum...