Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Experts on early peoples agree that the feather work of the Bawaiian islanders is one of the highest arts ever devised by a savage race. In making the capes thousands of tiny feathers, carefully selected from the plumage of rare mountain birds, were woven in intricate designs. The birds, now extinct because of the feather hunting, were the so-called "oo," "mamo," and "iiwi" birds, and were captured on sticky poles which the hunter baited...
...would be mentioned in dispatches. For his friend, Marshal Badoglio broke that rule last week. The world quickly learned that leading the advance from the south were those swankest of regiments, the Genoa Dragoons and Aosta Lancers. In eight days they had covered 250 miles from Dolo to the mountain slopes beyond Noghelli. Snipers fought them every mile, but failed to stay the advance. As willing to risk his own life as those of his men, monocled Graziani went with them...
...Sept. 2, 1913, the New York, New Haven & Hartford's crack White Mountain Express telescoped into the rear of its Bar Harbor Express near Wallingford, Conn., bringing death to 21, injuries to 50, much criticism to the railroad. To Miss Jean Annett of Red Bank, N. J.. whose neck had been broken and whose life had been despaired of, the company gave $10,000 cash, promised her $700 a month for life. Last week the New Haven, deep in Section 77-B reorganization, asked the courts to relieve it of further obligation to Miss Annett who, though confined...
...silverites loudly demanded new currency by the billion to pay the Government's bills. Schemes ranged from use of the $3,000,000,000 of "greenbacks" authorized in the so-called Thomas Amendment to the 1933 Emergency Farm Relief Bill, to the issuance of silver certificates against the mountain of silver acquired by the Treasury since 1934. And there was a fresh cry for spending the so-called "gold profit," now safely locked up in the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund. Meantime the 59? dollar sank for three weeks straight in international exchange. Last week both the French...
...simplicity of Bank Night makes all the more remarkable the way in which it has functioned, not merely to the advantage of theatre owners, but also to that of its shrewd young promoters. Charles Urban Yaeger devised Bank Night when he was assistant to Frank Henry ("Rick") Ricketson, Rocky Mountain division manager of Fox Theatres, as a means of increasing patronage. It worked so much better than Amateur Night, free radios and the like, which cinema exhibitors have been foisting on their patrons ever since the industry began, that Promoter Yaeger soon resigned from Fox, copyrighted Bank Night and organized...