Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also hunting for Spada were the proud reporters with their arm bands and their rifles. One found the oldest inhabitant of a mountain village in a more talkative mood...
Long scrutiny of ducks has given lean, bristle-lipped Tetsuzan ("Iron Mountain") Hori one great round eye, another squinted to half the normal size. Born in Kyoto 46 years ago, he was dedicated by his parents as an artist almost as soon as he could walk. He was apprenticed to the late great Seiho Takeuchi who made him study the lives and habits of wild fowl for 16 years before he might set brush to silk panel. For several hours a day he was made to squat in the marshes, by the duck ponds, silently meditating (a practice he still...
...classes. There were 30 fewer classes than last year, but most of the best U. S. show horses?with a few notable exceptions, like William DuPont's grey hunters Quarryman and Quarrymaster, Mrs. William P. Roth's five-gaited saddler, Chief of Longview?were entered. Young horses, such as Mountain Pippin, a three-gaited saddle horse owned by Jane's Place; Lieutenant W. M. Cleland's six-year-old Irish hunter Margot; H. Hollon Crowell's hunter Sir Conrad?won more than their usual share of blues. In the harness classes, there was a seasoned show-horse which no comparatively...
...where is there a Boston Nugget, where will you find, brisk, boisterous, debonair academicians clad in comfortable corduroys and sweaters? Where will you get our hill-winds and our mountain air, our Appalachian snows, and Alpine sports? With all due gratitude for hospitality received, we choose Hanover. The beer is better for one thing. And the Brahmins of Boston don't get in your hair. The Dartmouth...
...period last year corresponding to the present date, the little college of Alfred, at that time unknown to the realm of sports writers, met the big Blue Team. The result of the mouse struggling with the mountain was inevitable: Yale ran up a score of sixty-six points, and, as if adding insult to injury, she sent in three complete teams to devour what was left of the carcass...