Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absolute "tsar" is the only good solution. Rubber companies recently sought George Taylor Bishop as their ruler (TIME, April 18). Oil has often been on the verge of appointing one. The prime examples of U. S. business tsars are cinema's Will H. Hays, baseball's Kenesaw Mountain Landis...
...poor people. We pray that the Government will show its pleasure by permitting us to enlist again in the army and the police." Lastly the old chief made traditional "presents of fidelity" to Lord Willingdon-a long musket (its butt inlaid with gold), a set of carved daggers, some mountain goats and some fat-tailed sheep...
...time, called "Souvenir Lowere de Suisse." Miss Isa Kremer, a local Diseuse, appears to please audiences most with an astonishing repertory of songs, beginning with a French lullaby, skipping blithely through an Italian street ballad and an old English lyric to end up with the impersonation of a Kentucky mountain woman sewing as she sings. And although it has been knocking about the U. S. for the past winter, The Blue Bird's chief asset, exuberance, appears undiminished...
...Middletown, Md., while hoeing his garden. William H. Keller unearthed an eight-inch dud shell, probably fired in the battle of South Mountain, 1862. Twenty-five years ago William H. Keller's brother John was killed when his plough struck a similar shell...
Four years ago Marshal Wu went into the bleak, howling wilderness of Tibet (TIME, April, 16, 1928). There in a monastery perched on a mountain crag he composed a tome of Buddhist poems, painting each character daintily with his artful brush. This scholarly job done and his Fatherland being still stricken by famine, pestilence and war, sedate Scholar Wu buckled on again the sword of a Marshal, returned from lonely Tibet to overcrowded China and today looms potently upon the scene. Equally to President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing...