Word: mountainize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like one waking uncertainly from thick sleep, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh groped in the foggy Venezuelan morning. He twitched the Spirit of St. Louis upwards and sideways, seeking an opening in the mists and mountain peaks. He found a rift and streaked out over the Caribbean. For 100 miles seeing no land the flyer contemplated the two tinges of blue sky and bluer sea. Once he dipped to scoot cheerily close to the steamer Amsterdam. Once he scuttled through a sudden rain squall. Land notched the horizon far ahead. From there he flew over nearly nine hundred miles of "Islands...
Friends of Mary du Cauray, Duchess of Bedford, recalled that she is a busy expert in the realm of X-ray and electro-physics with little time for champagne christenings. "What are the peculiarities of mountain eagles in flight?" is a question which so intrigues the Duchess of Bedford that she passed a recent holiday above Spain, chasing mountain eagles by airplane...
Throughout the week a column of 400 Marines under Major Archibald Young pressed forward into the fastness of central Nicaragua and finally occupied El Chipote, a mountain 5,000 feet high on the top of which existed, recently, one more of the war bases of General Augusto Cal- deran Sandino, now the sole Nicaraguan commander in the field against...
...Imperial Household Ministry proclaimed, last week, that this year the set subject for its Spring poetry contest will be: The Coloring of the Mountain Becomes More Brilliant. From among the thousands of poems sure to be submitted the best will be culled, and-by way of "prizes"-will be read in the adjudged order of merit to His Majesty, the Sublime Tenno, descendant and Son of Heaven...
...world was in an uproar over Charles Augustus Lind- bergh's flight, Helen Keller had been informed of the incredible fact with frenzied nudges, incoherent pummelings. Now she was able to picture to herself the plane caroming through the darkness above the sea. Her sentient fingers touched the tiny mountain range that led across her page. Now he was over the green meadows of Ireland. Helen Keller smiled. When he landed, she could imagine herself hearing those cheers in a Paris twilight...