Word: himalaya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after two years, four months of nationwide search and tension, dashing Georgia Belle Scarlett O'Hara was a wispish little English girl with a neatly clipped British accent. Born in Darjeeling, India, in the Himalaya Mountains, Nov. 5, 1913, she spent the first five years of her life in Calcutta, about which she remembers nothing. Later she attended convent school near London with Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan. Still later Vivien Leigh studied dramatics. Married in 1932 to Barrister Leigh Holman (whose first name plus her own first name she uses for a stage name), she has a little...
Adding to an impressive list of expeditions, four members of the Mountaineering Club will leave New York tomorrow to join the British-Himalaya Expedition in an attempt to climb Nanda Devi, the highest peak in the British Empire...
Nanda Devi is 25,662 feet in height and located in the Sikhim Himalaya range, about 60 miles from the Tibetan border. Although there are nine higher peaks than Nandi Devi, including Everest, none have ever been climbed, and, unless Everest goes down to defeat this summer, success in reaching the summit of Nanda Devi would give the Harvard climbers the honor of scaling the highest peak ever reached...
...Himalaya Mountains I climb. I'm written up in FORTUNE and TIME. . . . I'm asked to every State ball, But I'm just behind the eight-ball with you. Call It a Day (by Dodie Smith; Theatre Guild, producer) combines all the good things from a generation of British domestic comedies, beautifully packaged in a tip-top production by the Theatre Guild. What it lacks in novelty, it more than makes up in size (nine scenes) and wholesomeness. From the innocent affair between the Hilton's dog and the neighbor's bitch to the momentary...
...incessant flow of conversation and the only reason he is tolerated at all is the quantity of adjectives he uses in describing Everest's grandeur. The pictures of the mountain are the first ever taken, and the photographers have good cause for pride. Scenes of the whole Himalaya range are surprisingly thrilling--at time one thinks one is looking at the moon through a powerful telescope...