Word: mountainize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swami. Munkund LaL Ghosh and Basu Kumar Ragchi, swart swamis, ran a school for ladies in Los Angeles, Calif. They took their pupils to the peak of a neighboring mountain where the atmosphere was such that "heaven vibrations" and "love control" were easy, and fat reduction a frolic. The regular fee was $35, but several clients were moved to rounder numbers. Fortnight ago, the irate husband of one client whipped Swami Lal Ghosh...
...proud young Amir of Afghanistan is the despot of a mountain realm rising like a sword between British India and Asiatic Russia. He divides one from the other, defies both. Last week the Amir Amanullah (literally "The Sovereign Lord 'Peace of God' ") set foot upon European soil at Naples, sped by specal train to Rome, began an extensive tour of the Occident...
Maurice Ravel heads the list of contemporary French composers. He was born in a mountain village near the Spanish border, went early to Paris, where the music of the Parisians took possession of his soul. The War also took him and made him a truck-driver...
Thomas Mann the author of the "Buddenbrocks", "The Magic Mountain", and other novels published in English translation, is the most distinguished author of living German novelists. his son Klaus, who is only 20 years old, has also written short stories and plays, but of these only one, "Kinder novelie," translated as "The Fifth Child", is as yet known to English readers...
...mountain, feeling its mightiness, has refused to move. But in England, amid furious controversy, Mohamat is preparing to go to the mountain along the road to Rome. Last week the presumably infallible encyclical of the Pope declared that if there is to be a unified Christian church, it will be the unchangeable Catholic Church, with the sinners gathered back into the fold. The Church seeks temporal power in Italy; it deplores Mexico! it disapproves of Prohibition in the United States. All these things bring it to the attention of American Protestants. But the open letters and Theological explanations intended...