Word: montes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the Alleghenies stirred pilots to call it the most dangerous hop they had ever made. Over half of the planes came down short of the stopping point owing to weather, engine or equipment defects. No one was injured. Two planes landed ahead of the field at Glendive, Mont., the following day. On the afternoon of the third day 12,000 people waited eagerly at Felts Field, Spokane, for the winners. To while away time, Army flyers stunted over the field. Specks appeared in the eastern sky. The winner of the Class B race was C. W. Meyers of Detroit...
...called Ohio Gang originated with Ohio's "Big Four" politicians: Mark Hamia, J. B. Foraker, George B. Cox, Charles Dick. Later additions were Harry M. Daugherty, Guy D. Goff, Warren G. Harding, Howard Mannington, Charles R. Forbes, Jesse Smith, E. Mont Reily, Daniel Richard Crissinger, George Busby Christian...
...Albert Dietrichstein Mensdorff-Pouilly of Austria was thus narrowly de- feated. Past Presidents in order of incumbency: Paul Hymans, Belgium, 1920; Herman Adriaan Van Karnebeek, the Netherlands, 1921; Augustine Edwards, Chile, 1922; Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza, Cuba, 1923; Giuseppe Motta, Switzerland, 1924; Senator Raoul Dandurand, Canada, 1925; Mont-chilo Nintchitch, Jugoslavia...
...cells lives a drab old maid with a parrot. To Mrs. Bowman's son (Douglass Mont-gomery), who has groped to young manhood in blindness, the spinster is kind, therefore beautiful. He venerates her as he does his own frowsy mother, who, when he was seven and still had his sight, must have been a golden beauty. His illusion of a pretty, black-eyed inamorata brings his first sex consciousness. It sweeps into his life with bewildering ecstasy, as the music of a symphony orchestra might come suddenly to a chanting savage. Into his world of sound, thus transposed...
...London, England, Representative Ernest W. Gibson of Ver mont, a schoolmate of Calvin Coolidge at Black River Academy in Ludlow, Vt., told the following story last week: "A jackass found its way one night into a classroom on an upper floor of the academy. The long-eared animal didn't like the classical surroundings and played havoc with the desks, tables and books, and roughed the place up generally, to the great displeasure of the Faculty...