Word: snowstorms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, ascetic English explorer named Layeville, most understanding one of the lot, came to a more agonizing end than the others. Plunging on alone into the Kuenlun Mountains of Tibet, he was trapped in a snowstorm, endured 30 days of unspeakable physical horror before he found peace as he lay dying in the snow, surrounded by the ice-coated corpses of his guides. Sick, decadent La Scaze, a rich Frenchman, voluptuary, onetime author, remained in Aqsu to recover from fever. Inert and drugged through most of his stay, he awakened when he saw a flawlessly beautiful native girl, who died...
...almost adjoining Peiping, is equally but less formally under Japanese control, has as its executive a toothy Chinese puppet named Yin Ju-keng (TIME, May 11 et ante). Puppet Yin avoids interviewers, has a hearty dislike of being photographed with his chunky Japanese military advisers, but last week a snowstorm kept him overnight in the port of Tientsin and Correspondent A. T. Steele of the New York Times, visiting Yin's capital of Tungchow, found a Yin subordinate, plump and beaming. Chung Tun-fu, in a state of garrulity almost unheard of among Chinese politicos of any complexion. Plump...
...Capricornus took off from Southampton with five men, one woman and 65 mailsacks to fly non-stop to Alexandria on a final experimental trip. Over Lyons a few hours later the British pilot ran into a severe snowstorm. Inept like most European airmen at blind flying, he got lost, circled through the murk while the radioman sent out an SOS. Before he could get his bearings, the pilot scraped his wing on a fir tree, smacked full tilt into the side of Mont du Beaujolais, killed everyone but the radioman, who crawled two miles through the snow for help...
...when Henry West Suydam, Special Executive Assistant to Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, resigned to write political articles and editorials for the Newark News. A onetime registered Republican, Henry Suydam joined Mr. Cummings' staff in 1934, brought about an immediate improvement in his principal's "press." No snowstorm of mimeographed releases blew from Mr. Suydam's office, but news-leads which Washington correspondents were usually glad...
...snowstorm of March 4, 1909, at the inaugural of William Howard Taft, Governor Hughes was a fine figure riding down Pennsylvania Avenue on a white horse, with snowflakes bombarding his red whiskers. A year later Taft named him to the Supreme Court but the chill of that day seemed to stick in his bones. When 20 years later he was again nominated for the Supreme Court-the second man twice appointed to it*-he was quite a different figure. He had left the Court in 1916 to campaign unsuccessfully against Woodrow Wilson, a campaign in which he was called...