Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Everest, and therefore is regarded as an excellent authority on what actually happened. His new book gives a human account of all the exploration that has ever taken place in the region of Mt. Everest in southern Tibet. Going back to the discovery in 1852 that "Peak XV," 29145 feet, was the highest mountain in the world, Captain Noel tells of the disguised surveyors who spent years in the monasteries of old Nepal and Tibet gathering bit by bit accurate information as to the exact surroundings of the "Goddess Mother of the World". In 1914 Noel made an attempt...
Preparations were made for a 1924 expedition; elaborate and expensive equipment was collected, but the great question was whether or not oxygen should be used on the mountain for climbing. Norton and Somervell were opposed, and finally made the world's record ascent without oxygen tanks, reaching 28,200 feet. Mallory and Irvine next tried with the aid of oxygen to reach the summit. Through a rift in the clouds Odell saw them 600 feet from the summit, but beyond that we know nothing of these two unfortunate mountaineers...
...gathering of like size preserves the geniality of a football crowd, immediately let out of the stadium. Surprisingly enough there is comparatively little boisterousness. There is a composure which is almost marked enough to be termed bovine; there is content. The tramp of tens of thousands of shuffling feet, the clink of colas in the Salvation Army blanket, the dolorous wheeze of the organ man, the shouts of the game extras, the smell of popcorn and frankfurters--these are what the artist designates as local color. And the fact that the scene passes, not to be viewed again until another...
...beauty from life. "Conway calling alone would talk of himself, sitting happily in the dim light of the parlor and enjoying his heightened self, his ease, his good looks, Theodosia's beauty, all the delights of remembered being. . . . Albert would come heavily into the parlor although his feet were agile and his large frame was light to his motions. He filled the parlor with his seriousness. . . . Another, Frank Railey, would stop casually on his way up or down the street, or he would take her to row on the pool beyond the town." But when Albert suddenly withdrew...
...about her work but seldom subtle in its execution. Daring arrays of color, learned on the Corn wall coast, are typical. Influenced as are almost all artists by modern tendencies, her feet remain resolutely on the ground. She was the first foreign woman chosen to serve on the Carnegie International Jury (1922). She loves working out-of-doors. She is 50. Through all her work runs a hard streak of sanity. She seems what many artists would hesitate to seem - completely wholesome. The dancing, the grace, the figure of Pavlowa are among her chief idola tries. She has amazing versatility...