Word: ferrill
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Because the adventurer has deliberately removed himself from the stream of society, society is not always friendly toward him. Few hostile critics have gone so far as Denver Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril, who was sure that "if a mountain persists as a challenge to a man over 26, it implies some psychic deficiency or sex frustration ... I am further convinced that the adult who feels under compulsion to lick formidable mountains invariably enjoys as unsatisfactory a love life as a lady harp player." The obverse of that notion is that sex itself is the real, perhaps the last great adventure...
...accounts of the two inquisitions continued to pop up side-by-side in the nation's press. Most amusing mélange of the two stories appeared in the Denver Rocky Mountain Herald, a small weekly of 2,000 circulation, edited by the wife of Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril. Said the Herald, in a front-page jingle titled Flynnlandia...
...year old enthusiasm in a thoroughly competent narrative poem, The Wings of Lead, pointing, in lines that have a bright startling thread of childish ingenuity drawn through them, to ". . . The beauty of a courage that can raise the wings of lead." Second prize went to Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril, third to Poet Babette Deutsch. Poet W. R. Benet's Lindbergh is adroit and satisfactory. The other poems vary from slightly above the mediocre to the incredibly poor...
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