Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baby With the Rattlesnake. This is not the exact story. Husband Brook and Wife Bacon were in the habit of parking their healthy young son Sandy in a small pen at the edge of the woods while they pursued art. One hot morning a fat rattler came down the mountain "walking to water," slithered into the pen. No more frightened than the infant Hercules, Baby Sandy went on playing until Alex Brook passed by, saw the snake, snatched up his child with one sweep, killed the snake with another...
...envy you your going to Zakopane. You are going to meet one of the most extraordinary young men you ever met." Two fast-traveling carriages had drawn up side by side in a Polish mountain village and the lovely Helena Gorska Baroness de Rosen, bound for Paris, was calling out to her friend, Actress Helena Modjeska on her way home from a U. S. tour...
Twenty-six inches of snow were reported on the mountain yesterday, and it was stated that a light, dry snow was falling, which should make perfect conditions for the time trials...
...district from which he springs, Antelope Mountain, is poor and frugal; its people are poor and frugal also, and their poverty is as much spiritual as material. The old problem of outgrowing one's own people, and with them one's early love, has been presented by Mr. Fisher with great power. In Vridar the impact of a new life has not yet been resolved; part of him can never be of Antelope Mountain, and part of him can not belong to Neloa Doole, whom he goes back to marry in the end, but he is closer...
...hundred colored slides and four thousand feet of film make up this pictorial account of the ascent of Mount Crillon in Alaska. The White Mountain Ski-runners' Club has sponsored Washburn's movie which the Boston Transcript termed the most wonderful ski motion picture ever seen. Harvard men may attend by paying $.75, instead of the general admission...