Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incidentally, the Balloon Barrage is quite beautiful. We have had such incomparable weather since the war started that every day we can see these "silver fish" swimming into the clouds: because as the clouds approach -a thing you are not normally conscious of - these balloons appear to swim into them. The latest crack, which I expect you already know, is about the dear old lady who said "The Germans can't frighten me, sitting up there in those balloons." . . . The most succulent rumor I heard the other day was that seven U-boats had given themselves up and were...
Last week Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring* announced the results of the tests: the Army will have the new tailoring, trousers and all, but will stay in olive drab. "For all-weather, all-year-round wear," said Mr. Woodring, who wore khaki in the A. E. F., "and for all types of terrain, the olive drab color proved far superior to slate blue so far as camouflage was concerned...
...Eleanor Roosevelt to the Pacific Coast, the San Francisco Chronicle last week reported: "Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt stayed away from politics. . . . Even when she lunched, somewhat surprisingly, with A. P. and Mario Giannini (who are being investigated by her husband's SEC) she kept the conversation on the weather and the [San Francisco] Fair. Her only lapse came when she picked up a newspaper and read that the President had issued a plea to the A. F. of L. for labor unity. 'Dear Franklin,' smiled Mrs. Roosevelt in the manner of an adult discussing a child...
Roberts ordered the overcrowded President Harding hove to in mounting seas in the Stygian night of Oct. 17. That he was in the vicinity of the hurricane, he knew. But British ships had ceased broadcasting weather reports, which might betray their location to submarines, and he had no specific reports of the storm's path which might have enabled him to avoid it. The President Harding, now actually 200 miles east of the hurricane's core, was suddenly buffeted by a no-mile-an-hour wind, floundered in a sea which rolled up into a single mountainous wave...
...Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "A howling, 50-mile-an-hour gale and a soggy airdrome did not prevent one young gallant from going up and putting on a hair-raising show for us this noon 'just to show that we don't mind the weather.' For half an hour he dived his ship from the cloudy sky, skimming over our heads at 400 miles an hour, went into hair-raising rolls a few feet off the ground, and drove almost vertically into...