Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow trains, Saks-Fifth Avenue-which last year installed the first of Manhattan's now numerous indoor department-store ski slides-chartered the S. S. Paris as a "snowboat." Advertisements said it would sail Jan. 16, with a ski-slide on deck, to get skiers to St. Moritz in ten days. Skiing down the side of a skyscraper is unpractical, but John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Radio City did the next best thing by announcing that it would swamp the sunken plaza, which is a tourist restaurant in summer, to make the first skating pond on Fifth Avenue...
...soon vacation begins which for the Oxonian means six weeks of uninterrupted study. Some will do it in Munich; others in Paris, St. Moritz or points south. There's a group of six going to the South Seas; there are several leaving for Spain to try to join up with the insurgent forces. Then again there are several Americans who will spend Christmas day on home soil. It is remarkable how the spirit of Christmas, somehow or other entangled with the devices of Cupid, works to take Americans home from abroad...
...fact that it lies a mile above sea level in snowy Sun Valley at the heart of the Sawtooth Mountains. For in Sun Valley, U. P.'s Chairman William Averell Harriman is developing a winter resort with heavy emphasis on skiing. He envisions it as a St. Moritz...
...doctors told the Count that their measures had not cured him permanently but assured him that he was well enough to travel. With his right foot in an enormous boot and two canes to help him walk, the famed hemophiliac reached Manhattan last week, proceeded to the St. Moritz Hotel, where last November he had signed "Conde de Covadonga y Condesa." Last week he signed simply "Alfonso de Borbon," made reservations for at least a month's stay...
...scene of the games which were held at Chamonix in 1924, at St. Moritz in 1928 and Lake Placid in 1932, Garmisch-Partenkirchen was selected two years ago because it was supposed to be the finest winter sports resort in Germany. Since then, Germany's Olympic Committee has spent 3,000,000 marks ($1,200,000) building headquarters for officials, a mile bobsled run, an artificial ice rink, a huge ski stadium, a ski jump so tall it makes the town's old one look like a mink-slide. All these preparations were keyed to the widespread German...