Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Free Church which was merged with the Church of Scotland in 1929, when the Duke of York was Lord High Commissioner. A quiet, knobbly-browed Scotsman, he has been playwright, actor, newsman, publisher, lawyer, justice of the peace, agriculturist, tax expert, Wartime propagandist, soldier, lecturer, mountain-climber, angler. He sits in Commons for the Scottish Universities, is a trustee of the National Library of Scotland. Best known of his rare bills in Commons was for greyhound racing. John Buchan is famed in Great Britain and well-known in the U. S. for his adventurous, Kiplingesque historical novels (Greenmantle, Witch Wood...
...Press ignored the incident, and four days later a lot of the same schoolchildren were in another throng that trooped to the lakefront for a party at which Banker Dawes's sister-in-law officiated. Mrs. Rufus Cutler Dawes broke a bottle of milk over the Magic Mountain on the Enchanted Island for children, formally opening this section of Chicago's 1933 World's Fair...
...replica of Fort Dearborn (1803), a Lama temple from Jehol imported by Vincent Bendix, a Mayan ruin reproduced after the approximately 700-year-old original in Yucatan by Tulane's Frans Blom. Climax of the backward time flight is "A Million Years Ago." On a small rounded mountain a caveman and his woman crouch low while the horrid monsters of King Kong and The Lost World stomp & roar, waggle their heads, lash their tails. New York's Messmore & Damon, U. S. monopolists on the construction of mechanized monsters, have furnished two dinosaurs, a brontosaurus, a shovel-jawed elephant...
...John Henry Hammond. Mrs. Hammond has taken 157 Berry Pilgrims to Georgia, to interest them in giving money and show them "the greatest humanitarian project being carried out in America." In 1901 Martha McChesney Berry, daughter of a socialite Georgia planter, casually began holding Sunday School for mountain children, in a log cabin on her father's estate near Rome. Soon her Sunday School overflowed; she founded another in nearby 'Possum Trot. Next year Miss Berry opened day schools, then a boarding school for boys, at $100 a year of which at least half was to be paid...
Last year former President Pascual Ortiz Rubio ordered General Arturo Campillo Seyde to go up to Lower California and see what was going on. The General spent months pounding over dusty mountain trails from Tijuana to Cape San Lucas, visiting mining camps, Japanese fishing villages, straggling ranches. Last week he published his report...