Word: mountaineering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patriotic citizens of Vermont wanted to bestow the name of Calvin Coolidge upon some high and worthy mountain peak. Last week the nomenclature committee reported that no unnamed mountain could be found...
Last week a loud noise was heard in the Rocky Mountains. It was a new newspaper in Denver, the Morning Post. It had been started to drown out the Rocky Mountain News at the Rocky Mountain breakfast table in retaliation for an attack by the News' new owners upon the old-time Denver Post in the evening field...
Spurs and six-guns of long-dead badmen are still to be kicked up from the sand and cactus of the Colorado plains. Buffalo skulls and stage-coach axles still bleach and rust in forgotten gulches of the Rocky Mountain foothills. But the West is "civilized," has been for some time, and with it Colorado. The funicular up Pike's Peak is 35 years old and for 21 years there has been a searchlight on the summit. The $2,500,000 State Capitol was finished way back in 1895. Denver still smelts lead for bullets and other useful articles...
...Scandinavian plateau† and start a beeline migration. They move by the million, having families more plentifully than ever on the march; destroying crops and herbage; preyed on by throngs of bigger beasts. They never hesitate,moving on (like Theodore Roosevelt and his children**) over every obstacle, lake, river, mountain, until they reach the sea. Here their blind instinct persists and out they swim, still in the line of the migration, until the last one is drowned. Only a few will have stayed behind, hibernating or lacking true lemming instinct, or perhaps so hardy that they have not felt...
...reality, a ship's steward, opposed by the girl's father who prefers a colorless favorite of his own choosing. The action unfolds before the fantastic beauty of Norman Bel Geddes' scenery. The magic of his perspective puts on the stage of a toy theatre, a mountain-top monastery accessible only by hoisting-basket. His heights are dizzy. Though psychoanalysts snickered, the play does weave a gentle enchantment that is not entirely crushed by the method of its whimsey...