Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roofed with tile of imperial yellow. The entrance was two great sheets of plate glass blazing in red with the character "Sho" (Longevity). The floors were marble, the movable partitions elaborately carved open woodwork, broken with old paintings on silk, panels and mirrors. Known as Pi-shu-shan-chwang (mountain lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray of pearls. The Emperor and his court hunted deer and boar in the rolling hills of its great park...
Such examples of German propaganda will make fine material for political oratory on and off the floor of the House. Four years ago New York's Red-hunting Representative Fish demonstrated how a little material could be piled into a mountain of headlines when he headed a footling House inquiry into Communist propaganda in the U. S. (TIME, June 2, 1930, et seq.). Prime difference will be that at the time of the Red hunt the U. S. and Russia were not on speaking terms...
...crime of the 20th Century made the following advances to public knowledge: ¶ To the parliamentary committee investigating the Stavisky scandal was privately exhibited the suddenly suppressed newsreel film showing the body of the wrecker of the Bayonne municipal pawn shop as it was found last January in a mountain cottage at Chamonix. The committee, on which were several doctors, immediately noticed several facts tending to contradict the police theory of suicide. There were no powder burns visible on the body. A pistol was clutched in his left hand but Stavisky appeared to have been shot both through the right...
Little Mariette Nguyen Huu Hao was beautifully married. It took four days. On her way up Annam's great mandarin road along the coast she stopped off to climb a mountain and drink of the "frozen spring." Outside Huê, a cavalcade of palace mandarins on short native Phu-Yen horses met her in the Valley of Clouds and escorted her through the three walls of the Red City into the Palace of Passengers. Next day, dressed in a great brocaded Annamite gown, she stepped into an automobile and was driven to the Emperor's Palace, followed...
Last week, after a hot summer had thinned the deep snows, two employes of a mountain resort hotel set out on mule-back. High up on volcanic Cerro del Plomo (Hill of Lead) they found the wreckage sticking out of shallow drifts. Some of the nine scattered bodies were decapitated; all were well preserved in their shrouds of snow...