Word: blizzarding
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Round the head of young King Michael swirled a political blizzard. Angry worlds, which freely bandied his royal name, flew back & forth. The disputants were the Big Three...
Marlene Dietrich, back after eleven months of USOing in Europe, greeted returning soldiers of the 44th Division by standing at the end of a Manhattan pier and waving a leg at them. She drew a deafening roar and a blizzard of coins. Then she had herself boosted to a porthole and really got down to cases (see cut). In Europe, she recalled, her most effective line was just, " 'Hello, boys'-I would just walk out on the stage, say that, and the house would come down. I don't know...
...Achmed Abdullah, 64, bemono-cled fictioneer `Who gathered material for his intrigue-filled potboilers by living a fiction-like life - working simultaneously as a Turkish cavalryman and a British secret agent, dealing faro in Nevada, play ing poker for a cap and gloves during a 50-below-zero Tibetan blizzard ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
William Randolph Hearst, 81 and agile, lauding his Boston newspapers (Record and American) for pulling through the February blizzard with a "really inspiring" production performance, confessed that he still found "glamor" in the newspaper business: "The old days were no better than the new days. I miss nothing except my own youth...
...took a long time to butcher them. The enclosure was a mile and a half long, and when a buffalo was shot, the rest ran the length of it, stayed there until Butters caught up again. A blizzard blew up, and coyotes gathered to jeer from the hilltops...