Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small, nut-brown Mahatma Gandhi came last week that slightly florid human mountain, the House of Commons. In effect a special meeting of the House convened around him, using for this purpose the historic Grand Committee Room. Barefoot and barelegged as usual...
...secretary to be able to play a "rattling good game." His own game has been described as "the picture of confident grace." Last week, threatened with a nervous breakdown, he was taken to a hospital for rest and observations. Some other Sinclair books: King Coal, Oil!, Money Writes!, Boston, Mountain City, Roman Holiday (TIME...
...real rest" was what President Hoover sought last weekend at his Rapidan camp. He read newspapers, napped, strolled about, gazed at mountain trout, got his mind completely off business...
Sugar v. Sugar, Oil v. Oil. The independence sentiment which Secretary Hurley encountered on his "eyes-&-ears" tour sprang, as he well knew, not from any major development within the Philippines themselves but from a sudden and significant shift of economic and political opinion when the U. S. Rocky Mountain beet producers two years ago began to complain that duty-free Filipino cane sugar was depressing their industry. Louisiana cane-growers felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came...
...streets. Rioters in the suburbs uprooted tracks and dug deep trenches across the roads. For many hours Barcelona was completely out of touch with Madrid. A noisy, long-drawn battle was waged between police and Syndicalists in front of the latter's headquarters. They gave up when mountain guns were unlimbered across the street. Sailors rushed a hundred of them on board warships in the harbor. A volley of shots rang out from doorways facing the tree-lined Rambla Flores, sloping down to the harbor. A Civil Guard whirled on his heel and fell, seriously wounded, among the flower...