Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool, shady Montreal. North Carolina's mountain church-resort where one does not stay out late, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (Southern) concluded its annual assembly last week. Chiefly for the same reason (Birth Control) as last year, the Southern Presbyterians voted to remain outside the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Denounced as modernists whose teachings result in the decline of young morals were Harry Emerson Fosdick and Council Leaders Samuel Parkes Cadman and Bishop Francis John McConnell. The Montreat assembly named a committee to plan union with other U. S. Presbyterian branches...
Prize was "From a Southern Mountain." Further evidence of the research he has done with local folk music is his more recent Mountain Song, an opera which has to do with a clan of fighting moonshiners...
...superfluous star on the handle could easily be seen. Lord Grey of Falladon, learned that he was going blind when the eyes which five years before "had seen the lights going out all over Europe" could not descry this single star. In the west over the shoulders of the mountain Jupiter glinted in a setting of dark blue velvet, and the milky way beat a track across the heavens. The earth had vanished and in its place was only a collender of sombre hue through which there sparkled the lights of an invisible nation. It was a sobering sight thus...
...Charley Williams, one of Hopewell's two policemen, in a barber's chair. To him Wilson babbled their discovery of the Lindbergh baby. Policeman Williams notified the State Police and together they went back to the hillside spot, visible on a clear day from the Lindbergh home on Sourland Mountain, five miles away...
...evening sun has just rolled down a shoulder of the mountain leaving a great blue heron hanging alone in the sky. He surveys with evident satisfaction the long line of foothills that stretch away like ramparts across the horizon. A carpet of soft green swings down the valley and lies along the plains beyond. In the pasture across the road a solitary hedgehog is pottering about some forgotten business before he sets out on the long waddle home. And in the air there is that strange silence that brings only happy sounds; the voice of the brook...