Word: edelweiss
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...succeeded, where five others had failed, in reaching the top of the world's highest mountain (29,002 ft.). The film has the distinction of being splendidly photographed (by Thomas Stobart and George W. Lowe of the expedition) in conditions where photography is about as easy as gathering edelweiss in an avalanche. It has also been intelligently edited, with a generally well-imagined musical score by British Composer Arthur Benjamin and a simple, sufficient narrative commentary written by British Poet Louis MacNeice...
...publishers call The Eye of God (the name of the local mountain) a novel. It isn't. Anecdotes don't make a novel any more than edelweiss make an alp; but when Bemelmans does the picking, they make a bright nosegay...
Also instructing at Chickley Alp is William C. Burghardt, former assistant chief instructor at Mt. Ranier National Park School. Chickley Alp has two town and six trails. The Edelweiss Club, whose members compete throughout the East, practices over the racing trail and jumps, one of which is 30 meters. A quarter of a mile on this trail represents a thousand foot drop, and the average grade is from 16 to 28 percent...
Changes. Not all of Adolf Hitler's birthdays since he came to power have been celebrated thus. In 1933, only three months after he first became Chancellor, the public birthday celebration was confined to the wearing of edelweiss, the Führer's favorite flower. The first birthday parade was held in 1935, but it was small compared to those yet to come and to that held last week...
...corpuscles eventually replace the decimal points in Atterbury's blood. Miss Plum teaches him jujitsu and the rhumba, becomes his secretary. He refuses to send to Switzerland for edelweiss. He causes Miss Cheri to break her contract under the moral turpitude clause by getting her so drunk she slips under a table in the Biltmore. When the bank sells the studio over his head and fires him, he organizes studio employes to defy the new owner, throws Nassau out with a jujitsu hold, saves Cheri's last picture by having it recut to star a gorilla. Stand...