Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occurred the famous Beer Putsch, when Adolf Hitler in a black frock coat, scowling over his smudge of a mustache, marched into the biggest beer garden in Munich, the "Burgerbraukeller," and proclaimed the National Socialist Revolution. There was a riot in the Odeonplatz. Adolf Hitler fled to the mountain village of Uffing and took refuge in the cottage of a devoted follower: Ernst Fritz Hanfstaengel, Harvard 1909, one-time Manhattan art dealer...
...their 5,400-acre estate at Hahatonka, near the damsite. Onetime Senator James Reed, the plaintiffs' attorney, declared at Jefferson City that Hahatonka "was one of the wonder spots of the world." Its "castle," lake and sparkling, spring-fed trout-stream drew visitors from all over the world. Mountain-whittling Gutzon Borglum promised to testify for the Snyders that he "would have given $1,000,000 for the estate" before the dammed waters started to rise, "would not have it at any price now." Meanwhile Union Electric Light & Power Co.'s new lake kept rising, last week reached...
...doctor's laboratory is amazingly macabre. It is situated in a cavernous windmill on top of a small mountain. Having infused life into his monster by hoisting him up to the ceiling on an operating table, causing electricity to crackle from all quarters, the doctor (Colin Clive) is stupid enough to leave him in the basement with an inadequate guard. The monster (played by Boris Karloff, who wears a square skull, tubes in his neck, scarred wrists, thick-eyelids and an immobile expression) throttles an assistant doctor who is trying to anesthetize him, stumbles angrily away from his operating...
...that followed 1915 the Wabash was far from the only major railroad in trouble. This period included government operation under William Gibbs McAdoo. In these years the following carriers went into receivership: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Western Pacific; International & Great Northern; Missouri, Kansas & Texas; Missouri Pacific ; St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern; Baltimore & Maine; Texas & Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande...
...Mountain Home, Ark., inmates of the Baxter County jail are charged $1 per day for board & lodging, billed when released, prosecuted for nonpayment...