Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equipped with guns that can easily fire into German territory, France has added two more monsters, Hackenberg defending the great industrial city of Metz, and Hochwald near the Rhine within easy shooting distance of Baden. Hackenberg is a marvel of underground mechanics, equivalent to ten dreadnaughts buried in a mountain, connected by poison-gas-tight tunnels and served by miles of subterranean railways on which projectiles and even guns can be rushed from point to point. Hochwald is almost entirely on the surface, a two-mile breastwork of cement and steel blocking German advance and called by General...
...fight was held in the beautiful Piazza Di Siena, an outdoor amphitheatre in the centre of Rome's public gardens. Il Duce was there in a ringside box with his two sons. He exchanged the Fascist salute with Carnera as the man-mountain lumbered into the ring. Then Carnera began battering Uzcudun. He battered him until Uzcudun's face was raw meat. In the sixth round the referee stepped in. He waited for Uzcudun's seconds to wipe enough blood away for Uzcudun to see, then stepped out again. It went on for 15 rounds, the crowd...
...kissed fruit. One thing is Robinson Jeffers' poetry, which is not noticeably drenched in California's private sun. A gloomy poet if there ever was one. and like most moderns much possessed by death. Jeffers seems even to his enthusiasts like his description of the mountain coast he inhabits : . . . precipitous, dark-natured, beautiful; without humor, without ever...
...glimmer of gayety; blind gray headland and arid mountain, and trailing from his shoulders the infinite ocean. Poet Jeffers likes lengthy poems in which his long-limbed lines have room to move, but he sometimes cramps himself into briefer limits. In his latest collection he includes 24 short poems, three long ones...
...untranslatable title of All Men Are Brothers is Shui Hu Chuan-three words which mean "water," "margins," "novel." In the 13th Century, in the reign of Emperor Hung Chung, the Celestial Empire was disordered and seemed decayed. On a mountain set in a lake surrounded by marshes 108 men, fugitives from society, took refuge, set up a robbers' lair. Like Robin Hood's merry men they never ground down the faces of the poor but pillaged the rich and warred against unjust rulers. Readers will find this chronicle of their deeds and stratagems amazingly fresh, and once their...