Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather,' that is, in order to insure publication at a given date he must have his material ready from six to eight weeks ahead. Thus on a cool June day the artist must be mentally sweating under a torrid August sun, while in October his characters are busily shoveling snow. Add to this the fact that the strip must be equally acceptable from Maine to Texas and it is obvious that it takes considerably more than faultless execution to make a successful cartoonist...
...Chinook was named for a wind-the dry warm northwesterly wind that is said to moderate the climate and "lick up" the snow from cold mountain slopes...
...nine, Edward of Wales drew on capacious rubbers, donned a grey checked overcoat, struggled into a great black ulster with an astrakhan collar, clapped a bowler (derby) on his head, and was off by limousine to inspect in three days slightly over 100 bleak, grimy villages. Appropriately a driving snow swirled about the royal car and patriotic British correspondents wired to anxious London that H. R. H. was "pressing on," despite "his heavy cold" and "frequent coughing...
...they left their counting rooms, and talk shop, ships, and politics for half an hour or so. The whole first story of the 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...
...especially in New England and the Northwest, dog-racing is becoming popular like all other winter sports. Last week Edward P. Clark won the 220-mile Berlin to Boston race, which stopped at Lowell, Mass., when a thaw spoiled the snow on the road to Boston. At the March winter carnival in The Pas, Man., will be revived the derby from The Pas to Flin Flo and back, with a $2,000 first prize and Emil St. Goddard, present world's champion, an entrant...