Word: crag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear except for a few flaky, high clouds, the climbers left the lodge, 16 on skis with "climbers,"* four on snowshoes. They followed a snow-tractor's broad track for two miles, then cached snowshoes and skis and began to hike. At a chute near a crag called Crater Rock, they affixed crampons (spikes) to their boots to insure their footing on ice. Split into three strings, they followed two trailbreakers, cutting steps ahead, up Zig Zag draw to the west of Crater Rock, to within 50 feet of the top ridge...
...handy. The miracle was a fine success, but the Pope disapproved. "Too showy and new-fangled," said the bishop (St. Clair Bayfield). The dance-hall customers also complained, although, after the cabaret took off from its Edinburgh street, it made a perfect three-point landing on a crag at sea without spilling a drink or disturbing the floor show...
...private army, led the way at the head of a troop of Scottish Horse on shaggy Highland ponies. The joggling troops wore the same khaki uniforms, slouch hats and black cocks' feathers worn in 1903 during the post-coronation visit of Edward VII. From Edinburgh Castle on its crag above the city 21 guns roared in royal salute...
...British destroyer Fury, and "His Grace, the Duke of Windsor"-as Prince Edward was created this week by King George VI-debarked at Boulogne into a private car and a new life of wealth, ease and perhaps happiness. Rolling down to Austria, he established himself high on a crag 25 mi. from Vienna at the castle of Baron Eugene Rothschild, who was host to the King & Mrs. Simpson last summer. Said the Duke of Windsor: "I am remaining here at Castle Enzesfeld until after Christmas...
...task of government has been, is, and always will be different in Italy from in England. . . . In the apt American phrase, Mussolini is a spellbinder. . . . Yet Mussolini is more controlled, more disposed to reticence, less expansive than the average Italian. He is imperious and detached. . . . He has a solid, crag-like passivity when listening, and even when speaking, that is particularly imposing in a land where all are volatile and throbbing. He gives the impression that confidence will be well placed in him, and power turned to good uses. . . . It is this un-Italian steadiness which marks him off from...