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Carlsbad Cave. A bright young man prepared last week to probe big, black Carlsbad Cave, the vastest known cavern in the earth, and disturb the millions of bats living therein. Frank Ernest Nicholson, 28, Texas-born journalist-explorer, within the fortnight will take a typewriter, radio transmitter, telephone with lengthy wire, block & tackle, torches, cameras, food, a physician, a mineralogist, an electrician, a representative of the Department of the Interior and four helpers to a cliff of the Guadalupe Mountains 100 miles from El Paso, Tex., and 30 miles south of Carlsbad, N. Mex. Near the cliff's foot...
There was an evening in Paris in the '70s when the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, went backstage at the Varietes. He was led through a gloomy cavern of stained canvas, ropes, flaring lamps. The air was pungent, draughty, filled with the cloying scent of women doused with violent perfumes. The blond prince entered the dressing room of the leading lady, a famed courtesan. She greeted him with coy, voluptuous respect, in tantalizing deshabille. The little dressing room was filled with starchy gentlemen, shouting amid the gay popping of corks. To one side stood a myopic, corpulent, bearded figure...
Guides for the cavern region of the Lost River Reservation in New Hampshire have been used by the Forestry department for nearly six years. Life guards and unusually strong students to help in carrying invalids in hospitals are supplied through the office. One of the steady demands is for donors in blood transfusions at hospitals near Cambridge...
...deep guttural oration issued from the cavern of his throat. He did not move a muscle when the bottle of champagne tinkled and exploded. Afterwards Old Paul von Hindenburg rode away to begin his vacation, hunting chamois in Bavaria. But Germans remembered his words...
Artists and Models. The Winter Garden, onetime cavern of corruption, no longer displays daring shows. Nothing is daring any more in Manhattan. It's too easy. Wherefore one does not go to this extravaganza hoping not to be found out. One takes one's wife & children. Well, perhaps not one's youngest children. One finds an evening alive with chorus girls. More beautiful girls than ever. It's odd how chorus girls in Manhattan shows seem to grow better & better looking on the average. One finds delightful dancing; even a smart song here and there...