Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters, U. S. dress buyers, tennis champions, and one superb banjo-playing Southerner. In a final scene Keating and Williams disguise the fact that they are glad to be together again by burlesquing an old-fashioned cinema situation. Keating as the villain pretends to usher her into his mountain hunting lodge, offer her a drink. Williams as the innocent young girl pretends to go behind a screen, take off her wet clothes, put on her dressing gown. She enacts a mock defense of her chastity until Keating embraces her in a final kiss that audiences are expected to believe...
...schedule for the season is as follows: December 20, Belmont Hill; January 6, Noble and Greenough at Dedham: January 10, Belmont High; January 13, Milton Academy at Milton; January 17, Exeter; January 20, St. Mark's at Southboro; January 27, Boston University Freshmen; February 7, Framingham High; February 12, Mountain Lakes Club; February 14, Newton High; February 17, Dartmouth Freshmen; February 20, Harvard Junior Varsity; February 22, St. Paul's at Concord; February 24, Yale at New Haven...
With the recent completion of the cabin of the Mountaineering Club which accommodates eight men, weekends on Mount Washington have become increasingly popular. There have been from five to 12 men each weekend since the cabin has been finished. This innovation gives the skiiers the opportunity to take advantage of the first snow the mountain has and to practice on slopes which are more precipitous than those usually used for slalom and ordinary racing...
...from Washington to be signed. When Acting Secretary Morgenthau rode beside the President, the wind wobbling both their pince-nez, the talk was of the Administration's embattled monetary program. Toward sundown the President would drive his guests up to his tight little white frame cottage on Pine Mountain to continue their discussions over the dinner table...
...years. All the assembled scientists realized that this hard & fast pronouncement was not based on sheer theory but was solidly documented by weather records for months, years, decades. Dr. Abbot studies solar radiation from his Washington station while his men study it from such farflung vantage points as Table Mountain, Calif.; Mt. Montezuma, Chile; Mount St. Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula. With the help of a "brass brain" (a periodometer or mechanical calculator) which he invented to co-ordinate chaotic masses of data, he delved into the temperature and precipitation records of Bismarck, N. Dak., far back into the last...