Word: aspen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Weather's Good . . ." During all the hustle & bustle at Cranmore, Mont Tremblant, Sun Valley and Aspen, Andy Mead was growing up. Her parents were as ski-crazy as anybody. Near the Vermont town of Rutland, Bradford and Janet Mead were building up a resort named Pico Peak, and incidentally raising their two children, Andrea and Peter-who is now wasting his early ski training in the Air Force. Ski enthusiasts with an independent income, the Meads made an annual spring pilgrimage to Switzerland's Davos. They brought up their children on a principle which the children thoroughly approved...
...making no predictions about this contest until he has seen some of his skiers on the snow. He points out though, that Williams, which won the Junior Division last year, now has a professional coach, and that Yale, which placed one above Harvard, at second, will go to Aspen (partly at Y.A.A. expense) for ten days of intensive ski schooling...
...years he made The New Yorker a synonym for urbanity, but he himself remained a bawling, rough-cut outlander from Aspen, Colo. A catty old friend, Alexander Woollcott, once described him as looking like "a dishonest Abe Lincoln." Rumpled, wild-haired and irascible, Ross talked in an ear-splitting voice, a combination of rasp and quack. He often expressed himself in skid-row profanity, or by mere grunts or gap-toothed grins. He had the energy of a bull, and a bull-like charm. Though he often sounded as crass as a cymbal, he had an amazing sensitivity for words...
...Aspen (Colo.) Institute: Darius Milbaud; Paganini String Quartet...
Lack of transportation funds has forced the varsity ski team to cancel a Christmas vacation training trip to Aspen, Colorado, Ski coach Graham Taylor, Jr. '49 will instead take the team to Putney, Vermont, where the squad will train for four days in preparation for its first meet on December...