Word: blizzarding
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...father of her child, and persistent pondering of this problem drives him mad. He believes all the women of his household are allied against him, even his daughter (Maisie Darrell) and his old nurse (Haidee Wright). By the end of Act I he is rushing out into a blizzard crying: "To hell with all women!" At the end of Act II he hurls a lighted lamp at his wife. The final curtain finds him a gibbering, grinning lunatic bound in a strait-jacket...
...impression that they are just too world-weary, Author Saunders has arranged that they reply to all efforts at normal human communication with a stock set of irrelevancies: "I'll take vanilla," "It seemed a good idea at the time," and "We're off in a blizzard of horseradish...
...hotel in the Swiss Alps a congress of Free Thinkers is being held. As the convention is meeting a young man walks in, announces himself as Jehovah visiting his earth. At first he is laughed at, then curious and portentous things begin to happen. A blizzard cuts the hotel off from the outside world. A glacier moves down on the hostelry, assuring certain death to all the guests. The Free Thinkers reconsider, elect "Monsieur God" president. Then the cooks rebel, led by a Napoleonic elevator man (Claude Rains). The scullery boys rebel against the cooks, lock up the head chef...
...situation of one squeaking white baby seal, stuck to a lump of ice; when his mother pauses to nose him off, both are shot. After the hunt, the sealers haul their "sculps" (seal skins) back across the ice. The jinker and his rival get left behind in a blizzard, the story sets in again...
...three principal visitors at the White House last week were King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam and Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of last month's Colorado blizzard (TIME, April 6, 13). The ailing little King, first absolute monarch ever to cross the Executive Mansion's threshold, called on President Hoover at 10:15 one morning, hurried back to his quarters to receive the President at n, then spent the afternoon in a dentist's office. After a state dinner at the White House that evening, during which Master Untiedt was permitted to peep...