Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well limbed. His Imperial Highness stands 5 ft. 7 in. in his stockings. His complexion is a light olive tan. His features are regular, his eyes dark, level and un-slanting. He has climbed more mountain peaks than any other Alpinist of royal or imperial blood. He is an all 'round sportsman with a keen interest in baseball. His attire, when he landed from the Majestic, was faultless to the point of being inconspicuous: a derby hat, black coat, black suit, black tie and a correct white mourning shirt with narrow black stripes. Yet neither shopgirls nor stenographers yearned...
...pack animals made a long line of quadrupeds as they trailed along the foot of the mountain. Had they known the rigors which they were to face before their return they would never, never have gone. They went. And soon the first ridge of old egg shells left by summer visitors to western Vermont met our gaze. Commander Fish, who is a scientist as well as a lecturer, a mountain climber and an Elk stopped to inspect these. Old Mumbley-Jumbley, one of the natives in the train, said that these shells were from local Baptists who each year made...
...soon as the pack animals realized that we were moving beyond the timber line, they ceased to function, some even lying down. Remember that time was short and that twelve photographers as well as an advance agent of the Alpine Club were waiting there at the bottom of this mountain for news of our success...
...high tea, then and there. Of course the snow hindered us, but what is one hindrance more or less. Refreshed we made the last nine inches in ten flat. And what do you suppose we found? Well, some one had evidently climbed the dear old mountain before. For there was a bright, shiny Statler Hovel, newspapers at every door...
...there, has tried a distillation of these three, achieving a glorious color but not much kick. Angel Thornley, the hillbilly preacher's girl, bathes at misty dawn beneath a rainbowed waterfall. Her father sets the sheriff on her lover, Buck Merritt, moonshiner, and marries her off to a mountaineer to make her an honest woman. After several years of cussing and slamming the door of their shack, the mountaineer blows himself up working on a road gang. Buck Merritt gets his pardon just then and comes back for Angel and Little Buck. The primitive feelings of mountain people...