Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party traveled by rail from Jasper to Robson Station, and then on horseback to Berg Lake Camp, seventeen miles distant, in the upper part of the "Valley of a Thousand Falls." This camp is situated on the shores of the lake at the foot of Mount Robson, the monarch of the Canadian Rockies. Here again the weather proved quite unsatisfactory, but on Thursday it was possible to spend the day outside the shelter of the camp. One group under the leadership of Dr. Parejas crossed Robson Glacier and climbed the Lynx. Traversing its summit and the neighboring ridge, they reached...
...Richard Price and Lieut.-Col. W. P. Drury concocted a characteristic Pepys plot out of their imaginations, had the scampish Samuel entertain an actress, Mistress Knipp, with wines and spinet-playing; had Mistress Pepys return inopportunely but not until Mistress Knipp had time to disguise herself as the Merry Monarch Charles II honoring his Secretary of the Admiralty with a visit. Müncheners greatly liked this synthetic Pepys given them in the translation of Max Meyerfeld. They waxed enthusiastic over the simple, deftly turned music of Composer Coates, likened its gaiety, its crinkling charm to Mozart...