Word: hood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most Alpiners, the Rocky Mountains would be more homelike, but the big money still lies on the low slopes of the East. Skiing, however, is perking up in the West. Last weekend, at Government-built Timberline Lodge on Oregon's 11,253-ft. Mt. Hood. 5,000 spectators watched more than 100 top-flight skiers from the U. S., Canada and Europe compete in the season's most important ski competition, the National Championships. From the winners would be picked the U. S. slalom and downhill teams of five men and five women to be sent...
Charles A. Prosser, Director of the William Hood Dunwoody Industrial Institute of Minneapolis, Minnesota will deliver the fifteenth annual Inglis Lecture on April 14 in the Littauer Center auditorium, taking "Secondary Education and Life" as his subject, it was announced yesterday...
Died. Herbert Mundin, 40, British cinema comedian (Cavalcade, David Copperfield, The Adventures of Robin Hood); of a fractured skull received in an automobile accident; in Van Nuys, Calif...
Garbed by the Penitentiaries in white soutane, red cape and hood, the body of Pius XI was raised upon a velvet and gold catafalque, carried in a slow cortege to the Sistine Chapel. There, dwarfed by the surging figures of Michelangelo's vast Last Judgment, the Pope lay in state while dignitaries of the Church, diplomats. Crown Prince Umberto (for the Italian royal family) and Count Galeazzo Ciano (for Mussolini) paid homage. Next day the Pope's body was carried into St. Peter's, where the weeping populace, which had been thronging St. Peter's Square...
...fame & future hanging on the events of the passing hour, he yet has such a wealth of simple bonhommie & good fellowship that he gets out of bed & perambulates the house in his shirt to find us that we may share with him the fun of one of poor Hood's queer little conceits...