Word: mountaineering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause of this cross-mountain trip? The President had come not merely to revisit the glimpses of his early struggle. He had come not merely for a sentimental sleep the half-house the rent of which he had paid as City Councillor, Mayor, State Legislator, Lieutenant-Governor, Governor, Vice President ?and which, as President, he owns. He had come that he might see, and that his wife might see a sternly sweet old lady. Elmira, mother of Grace Goodbue. Thin white hair gathered closely about her head, broad white lace neatly pinned about throat, an erect figure in which...
...remember this Southern play by Lula Vollmer, which told so sternly and so well certain truths about the mountain people. In the picture it still has its tale to tell, plus a love story to thin it out to seven reels. The story is one of war; how feud war faded before the greater war which took the mountaineers to Germany, which they regarded as just beyond Asheville. The dominant figure is the old mountain mother who, between puffs at her corncob pipe, attains in her ignorance to some fundamental facts in life. Lucille La Verne, as in the play...
...Chattanooga, 115 leading citizens headed by Adolph S. Ochs contributed $1,000 apiece, founded an association to buy the eastern and western slopes of Lookout Mountain (the top is now covered with homes) and turn it into the "Chattanooga Lookout Mountain Park...
...Lincoln arrived Charles G. Dawes, and related that in nine days at Wagon Wheel Gap, Col., he caught an even 100 mountain trout. His associates confirmed his declaration...
Ubiquitous Gutzon Borglum, cleaver of rocks, carver of mountains, talked to a reporter in Kansas City. He declared that the rancor of the Stone Mountain Controversy (TIME, Mar.. 2 et seq.) boiled no more within him, that he was now about to throw all his energies, his visions, his genius into a great project in-"North Carolina?" queried the reporter. "No, South Dakota," replied Borglum. With the sculptor was his son, Lincoln Borglum. "Tell the man about Bryan, Daddy," suggested Lincoln. Hill-Hammerer Borglum then spoke of William Jennings Bryan, related how, before he resigned as Secretary of State...