Word: hut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aunt Dete (Mady Christians) took Heidi to the Alpine hut of Grandfather Adolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt) because she was tired of looking after her. Grandpa Kramer, a recluse, had not spoken to anybody for years, but Heidi soon made a playmate of him. It was terrible when Aunt Dete stole her one day, took her to Frankfurt to live in rich Herr Sesemann's house. After the snow and goats it was dismal doing lessons with invalid Klara Sesemann. (Marcia Mae Jones). Klara's mean governess, pointing her starchy cap at Sesemann, wanted Klara to stay sick...
Colored slides of climbing in the Canadian Rockies near Lake Louise were shown after the movies, and there was discussion on the club's program for the coming year, including use of the hut on Mt. Washington, and the Sunday climbs nearby to start men out on rock-scaling. The first of these expeditions will be next Sunday...
...simply eat it up. ..." With a possessiveness much like that which she had formerly felt toward artists and writers, she declared fiercely: "I'd hate to have these Indians get recognition! Why, it would be the end of them!" Her first stop was at an adobe hut where a blanketed full-blooded Indian named Tony Luhan sat on a hassock beating a drum and singing. Tony was a large-featured, husky, hairless, sedate man with "nice eyelids" and beautifully plucked eyebrows. When he finally looked up, Mabel "saw his was the face that had blotted out [husband] Maurice...
Bosses. For the first time since he was born in a farmer's hut in Oriente Province 36 years ago, full-blooded Fulgencio Batista was without a boss to chafe him. His first boss was a tailor who apprenticed him at the age of 12. Batista now brags that before he quit a year later he could make a suit of clothes himself. Afterward he worked in a grocery store and bar, as a railroad fireman, engineer, conductor. Once he studied to be a barber. In the sugar boom of 1920, Cuba's Dance of the Millions...
...charge of U. S. air forces sent to Canada to patrol the east coast against submarines. Out in civil life again in 1926, he put martial affairs behind him for good, took up exploring. It was while he was self-marooned in a hut at Advance Base, 123-mi. south of Little America three years ago with his now famed defective oil stove, that Sailor Byrd, deathly ill from monoxide poisoning, turned his thoughts full force to peace. Having written his will while maintaining a spuriously cheerful radio contact with his base camp lest men be lost hurrying...