Word: monts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three daughters of a druggist in Silver Bow, Mont., Louise was most beautiful, Grace most domestic, Helen most electric. Louise was one of nature's noblewomen and great things were expected of her, so when she eloped with a hard-drinking sports writer, Silver Bow was shocked. After many an up & down, Louise's husband left her, shipped as a sailor the night before the San Francisco earthquake. The shock and the quake combined gave Louise brain fever. A friendly floozy took her in, and she recuperated in a bawdy house. Then she married a rich...
...Manhattan last week Missionaries said that their messages had reached a total of 1,000,000 people. Biggest per capita turn-out for their meetings was in Billings, Mont. (pop. 20,000) where police daily counted 2,000 to 3,000 automobiles and some 8,000 people on the fair grounds where the Mission set up camp. The Mayor of Omaha proclaimed a minute of silence on two of the mornings the preaching team was present. In Seattle 8,000 people crowded the Civic Auditorium while 5,000 were turned away. In Chicago 30,000 attended a series of meetings...
...Michigan and Wisconsin. As in the East, the favorite tree is the luxuriant and fragrant balsam fir, with spruce, still considered the only real Christmas tree in the South, a bad second. Exclusive with Gust Relias are colored Christmas trees, sprayed green or silver at his shipping point, Eureka, Mont...
...just-born baby whom he is briskly slapping into mundane consciousness. Caption: "Life Begins." First LIFE feature, Franklin Roosevelt's Wild West, showed how WPA workers disport themselves in frontier style in the bars and dance halls of the new-hatched towns of New Deal and Wheeler, Mont., where the vast Fort Peck Dam project is under way. Prize shot: A pile of tangled wire dumped outside a rooming house, captioned, "The only idle bedsprings in 'New Deal' are the broken ones." Dispatched to the Northwest for some of her famed construction shots, Photographer Margaret Bourke-White...
...Education of Henry Adams" was published several years after the author's death and attained a tremendous popularity which it will doubtless hold so long as literature lasts. It has been issued in a number of different inexpensive formars. "Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres" by the nature of its subject is a more technical and a more difficult book to read. It is an experience in aesthetics and the philosophy of aesthetics that is unrivalled by anything in any tongue; the "Stones of Venice" is uninteresting beside it, and it excels the ordinary artistic appreciation as Chartres itself excels Memorial...