Word: mountainize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens of pastoral Liechtenstein-minute, autonomous, mountain-hemmed, principality adjoining Switzerland-had every right, last week, to call their new ruler, Prince Franz, a harum scarum...
...monster" who was no monster at all but a round German burgher, bald, shuffling, infinitely good-natured. Re-elected in 1918, he was refused his House seat by a vote of 309 to 1 because of his pacifist doctrines. In 1919 he was again elected, again barred. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in February, 1919, passed on him the verdict of "espionage," sentenced him, with a flourish, to 20 years' imprisonment. He never served a day of it. Higher courts reversed the decision. For four years he and his newspaper were refused use of U. S. mails...
...much better than it was a generation ago when he had no work at all. . . . When they talk about $12 a week, they do not tell you about the free homes, the good country food, water and light for nothing and the palaces they live in compared with the mountain homes from which they came. . . . You are dealing with a backward people who had to learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison. . . . The hours may be long and the pay small...
Died. Milton Bennett Medary, 55, of Philadelphia, architect (Valley Forge Chapel, "Singing Tower" at Mountain Lake, Fla., Philadelphia's Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Building, Penn Athletic Club Building, workingmen's villages at Neville Island, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem; consultant architect, Cornell University, Mount Vernon, Roosevelt Memorial Association); in Philadelphia...
...Fight for Matterhorn (German). Knowing that audiences all over the world have been bored by faked scenes illustrating the perils of Alpine mountaineering, the producers of The Fight for Matterhorn did not dare to let their fly-like heroes start up the icy ledges until they had roped them together with a story. The anecdote they devised is a silly one about two men who were racing to see which of them could get up Matterhorn first, and how one suspected the other of wanting his wife. Hollywood scenarists could have got out something much better, but no Hollywood company...