Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start who wins his way to the proud title of duke pays for his vanity o ver thirteen thousand dollars, so that the belted earl whose coronet has come down from father to son through dim and distant generations can comfort himself with the reflection that the ambitious climber is charged a pretty penny for his purple. In fact so steep is the price that many honest laboring men find it more advantageous to refuse glittering but costly honors, and remain unadorned but wealthy members of the common herd...
Those who climb to high places have a toilsome journey. One slip of the foot, as on a drop of oil, may cause the climber to lose in one day what he has gained in many months of effort. All aspirants for the Presidency were disturbed more or less last week by the slippery climbing...
...Pope forwarded a gift of money to the Bishop of Pinerole to aid the victims of a fire in a little Alpine Village. As Alpine climber, Achille Ratti knew the village well...
Achille Ratti, priest, bishop, mountain climber, knew a different life. So did also Cardinal Ratti, skilled and active representative of Pope Benedict XV in Poland. But there are no serious fears for his health. All look forward to seeing him initiate and celebrate 1925, the Holy Year of Jubilee...
When Achille Ratti ascended the throne of the Popes at Rome 20 months ago, the surprised world-in-general grasped one fact: he had been an Alpine climber. It overlooked the fact that the new Pope? Pius XI?had been acting as Papal nuncio in Poland, which, from the point of view of the Roman Catholic Church, was, after the War a most crucial province...