Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hudson Valley's Catskills where Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle rolled ninepins with gnarled mountain gnomes for 20 years, there was great to-do last week. Woodstock's famed colony of artists, authors, actors, musicians, dilet- tantes and onlookers was preparing for its annual Maverick? Festival, a day-&-night bacchanale to which annually troop thousands of non-colonists to see arty fun. As the day (Aug. 29) approached indications were that in a long-standing feud between colonists and townsmen, the townsmen were for the moment a little ahead...
...this threat Impresario White made clarion answer. He declared that this year's Maverick would be "the most stupendous spectacle ever seen in America." According to tradition it will be held at full moon in a long mountain meadow. It is strictly in costume, the more outlandish and inane the better. Lunches are packed, fires are kindled, and as the afternoon's spectacle progresses, sitters (thousands come, anyone who has the price of admission) munch and watch. The colonists sell their batiks, paintings, arty gadgets. Newsboys hawk a special edition of the bulletin. Late in the afternoon a costume promenade...
...always wears a black veil and who in the end turns out to be the long-lost mother of one of the characters. There is also an unscrupulous society woman, her evil brother, and a country girl whom an artist from the East finds bathing at dawn in a mountain pool. Blond Una Merkel takes the part of this young girl. That her good looks and slow, intense voice will make her important before long is the only interesting suggestion conveyed by the whole silly business. Typical Wright phraseology: "vipers" (for villains), "little minx" (for heroine), "ablution" (for bath...
...northern California. They reached there on Mr. Macfadden's 62nd birthday. While the pilgrims watched, dignitaries of the Redding Chamber of Commerce disclosed a bronze plaque fixed to the central peak, and unveiled a $70,000 airplane beacon (which Mr. Macfadden had paid for). The plaque designated the mountain as Macfadden Peak (TIME, July 7) "in recogni- tion of the public services of Bernarr Macfadden, apostle of health, and in honor of his spectacular influence in arousing the nation to the benefits of life in Nature's Great Outdoors...
...commented: "Possibly . . . this is just a start and we may later find the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce considering the question of abandoning the name of 'Golden Gate' for 'Albert Abrams Bay.' Los Angeles businessmen might very properly recommend changing the name of Santa Monica Mountains to the 'I-on-a-co Mountains' in honor of their late-lamented citizen, Gaylord Wilshire. The conception has infinite possibilities. Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga might readily be called 'Mount Cardui,' while Nahant Bay (off Lynn, Mass.) could be rechristened to immortalize the omni- present Lydia...