Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Previous to his coming to Dartmouth, Schniebs had had considerable success in coaching the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Harvard Mountaineering Club. He hailed from the Black Forest region in Germany, and he was a famous skier of the Arlberg School. He had a lot of new ideas about skiing methods, and he proceeded at once to put them into effect. His Arlberg methods changed entirely the technique of skiing at Hanover...
...Foshay is now engaged as vice president of Mountain Cross Granite Co. of Salida, Col., owned by Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Chicago drugchainer. Over the Foshay desk used to hang a motto which apparently serves to temper his prosperity as well as his adversity: "Why worry? It won't last. Nothing does...
...color is almost as brilliant, his draughtsmanship almost as good as the meticulous Pierre Roy, but his subjects are different-not bits of ribbon, seashells or birds' eggs. He paints ships, omitting rigging and portholes, paring the hulls down to essential forms. He does landscapes of jagged tropical mountain ranges, coral-robed natives under tattered banana fronds, and the steel grey lattice work of cranes against a smoky sky. One of his most effective canvases, Trois Mats le Jeanne d'Arc, shows the trim white hull of the Joan of Arc moored at quayside, her three bare poles...
...unveiled the world's largest statue of Jesus Christ, 250,000 pilgrims and nearly all the 1,447,000 inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, toiled up last week to Corcovado Mountain, nearly half a mile above the city and its great harbor. Rain dribbled dankly. In Rome, 5,000 mi. away, Senator Guglielmo Marconi flashed three short-wave wireless signals, contacting a switch which turned on a battery of floodlights. Revealed was Jesus Christ the Redeemer, 130 ft. high, 92 ft. from fingertip to fingertip, arms outstretched. Visible 20 mi. away, sculptured by Frenchman Paul-Maximilien Landowski, the mammoth...
...with him from Ecuador across the Andes and down the Amazon to the Atlantic this winter. Each man will pay $5,000. That will cover all his expenses and equipment except clothing, cigarets and liquor. He will have a personal Indian valet; will get travel. Inca exploration, fishing, hunting, mountain-climbing, a four-month vacation. No women, not even Mrs. Dickey will go along. On the last Orinoco trip Dr. Dickey, 25 years a physician in the tropics, told her not to eat native raw vegetables unless she first washed them with permanganate of potash. She disobeyed, caught amebic dysentery...