Word: blizzard
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...smile like the last soliloquy of Hamlet. He was a tenderfoot. The date was the year of Our Lord 1896?a period in which gentlemen were proud to spend several thousand dollars of lousy paper money to dig up a couple of ounces of mica "in the Klondike. ... A blizzard. A straggling company of ragged monte-banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door, warm the tattered stranger with a glass of whiskey? No; he snarls...
Kivalina of the Ice Lands was filmed by one Earl Rossman in a two-year expedition to the Arctic. Eskimos are the actors. Here are reindeer without the Santa Claus; an eskimaid eski-mobiling behind some dogs through a 50-below zero blizzard; a full color reproduction of the aurora borealis. It might have been written with an ice-pick on the bleak wall of an igloo, but its impression of tiny men spinning their confused webs against the icy gulfs of immeasurable space registers effectively...
...Supreme Court filed in, all wearing black satin skull caps, except Justice McReynolds, whose bald pate, unprotected, bore the chilly breeze. Sixteen years before, at that time and place, a heavy blizzard was blowing; slush was ankle deep. On that occasion, Chief Justice Taft, now about to administer the oath of Office to the President, had taken that same oath himself, but in the Senate Chamber. The Cabinet, including Mr. Hughes, retired, appeared in their silk hats. The new Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine, was with them; in the fortunes of the day, a dent had been stove...
...throw off the constantly increasing strain of civilization as one to gain wealth. The same urge that sends men toiling to the woods and streams for game whose value is rarely ever that of even the instruments that one employed to get it, sends them through a New Mexican blizzard to the town of Gold Dust. Men are more elemental than they know...
...America seems to have taken flight with all its clattering symbols of Kleagles and Klaverns. The suggestion that it was a clever hoax, highly remunerative to its perpetrators, has dissolved this shadowiest of empires. In Germany the menacing standards of nationalism and anti-Semitism have been buried under a blizzard of hostile ballots. Even in Italy, a home of unreflective national passions, the Fascists are relaxing their grip...