Word: mongol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everest expedition had permission for only one try at the peak. The Maharajah of Nepal, a wily Mongol, above whose small craggy kingdom the flight took place, did not want Britishers taking too many pictures over his head. To his devious mind the proposed air-mapping sounded like preparation for an invasion...
...falls in love with Richard Dix who spurns her, until in the last reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White men and women maintain copybook virtues in the unspeakable shadow of Mongol bloodlust. Typical dialog: "You don't know Voronsky." "Only casually; I just...
...Faber Mongol Van Dyke...
Faber invented the nickel-plating of pencil tips, pencil point protectors, rubber tips. In its line are the Mongol colored pencils ("Paint with Pencils"), weatherproof pencils, eyebrow pencils. Newspapermen like its Black Knight, a blunt pencil not likely to break in a crisis. Faber claims to be the largest maker of erasers and recently offered rubber bands in pastel shades. It is thought to make 25% of popular-priced pencils. Its line comprises 250 varieties not including various degrees of hardness which sometimes run as high as 18 to a pencil...
...Witches' Flight by Wassilenko was eerie music fairly descriptive of its title. Illiashenko's Dyptique Mongol dissonantly depicted the retreat of the warriors escorting dead Genghis Khan, their preparations for battle afterward. The Witches' Flight is 23 years old. And the composer of Dyptique Mongol teaches at the Brussels Conservatory, is a White Russian expatriate like Prokofiev and Stravinsky. But most people knowing that Conductor Stokowski brought the two new scores home with him on his return from Russia last spring, knowing him to be an alert musical reporter,* assumed that these importations were Soviet products...