Word: lava
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dantesque region of ice and fire. Out of cracks in its glaciers spurts steam from the muttering cauldrons below. Rivers run blood-red with oxide of iron. Mighty volcanoes darken the sky with smoke and ash and litter the land with grotesque shapes of lava. It is the land of Aniakchak. world's largest active crater, within whose bliz-zard-beaten rim, 21 mi. around, a lesser volcano raises its snout and a placid lake nestles. It is the unofficial domain, the scientific laboratory and the conditioning gymnasium of sturdy young Father Ber- nard Rosecrans Hubbard...
...ward off suicidal despair Spengler recommends the psychological attitude of the Roman soldier who died at his post in Pompeii. When the volcano under civilization explodes, and the burning dust begins to descend, the more honorable Spenglerian carnivores will take it standing, polish up their buttons as the lava rises. With its men all dead but its honorable buttons bright, Western civilization can then rest forever on its yews...
...skeletons of whitened ruins. Last week a series of earthquakes shook the country. Panes rattled, pictures fell, walls cracked. Guatemalans, remembering the destruction of their capital in 1918, fell on their knees and prayed. The shocks continued, grew more violent. The two volcanoes reared their heads. Fire, ashes, lava spouted from their mouths, peasants shivered at the sound of their abdominal rumblings. Ashes fell a foot deep on nearby villages, destroyed coffee crops for miles around. Guatemala City was under a cloud that spread from Mexico to Nicaragua. After two days the shocks stopped. The city still stood. The buzzards...
...Charles Bickford) who is court physician to the potentate. The latter, a villain addicted to oily smiles and platitudes, threatens to throw her husband to the crocodiles in the palace pond. He is foiled by a combination of circumstances which includes the eruption of a volcano whose streams of lava overflow the palace. Rose Hobart and Charles Bickford, thoroughly reconciled, escape in a sampan...
...dromedaries had been landed alive in Texas at a cost of $30,000. Troops of them were maintained at El Paso, Fort Bowie, Ariz., Fort Tejon, Calif. Loaded with 1,000 to 1,500 lbs. of supplies, they did not cross the U. S. desert, hard-packed and lava-strewn, so well as they had crossed their native Sahara. Their wily stubborness made them unpopular with the soldiery; they stampeded horses and cattle. Nevertheless they were tested systematically in desert service for several years. In 1860 some of them helped build the famed Butterfield Stage road. In 1863 a dromedary...