Word: mountaineering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Athos," said Professor Lake, "is a most remarkable place. It is the most easterly of three peninsulas jutting out from the northeastern coast of Greece. The Persians under Xerxes dug a canal cutting off from the mainland the mountain which rises 6000 feet from the sea at the extreme tip of the peninsula. Mt. Athos itself and the region around it is taken up largely by monasteries, there being some...
...curious rules which are enforced at Mt. Athos, is that nothing female is allowed to come into the vicinity of the Holy Mountain. A year or so ago there was a great commotion and much consternation among the monks there due to the fact that someone had imported a number of hens. Before this time all eggs had to be imported with results that you may imagine, but now, although the monks were much distressed...
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...height. The villagers are raw material for the exploitation of his new-found ideal. He lusts for the wife of his host; he plays upon the superstitions of the old people; he takes life and death into his own hands; and finally creates of the frowning face on the mountain a singing god head...
Servitors flitted excitedly about the Hotel de la Ville, Milan. While an adept facchino hastily pasted the establishment's labels on a small mountain of luggage, he grinned to observe a dictatorial Roumanian gentleman who fumed with the proprietor over the last items of a considerable bill. Suddenly a petite red-haired young woman emerged from the hotel lift with the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania. Before them scurried the Roumanian gentleman, dictatorial no longer, to usher Mme. Magda Lupescu and the former Crown Prince into an automobile which sped to the great Stazione Centrale...