Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example is Senator Hiram Johnson's rage at Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 for not handshaking him in San Francisco. The 1916 election was so close that Mr. Hughes has always been said to have lost it by that one handshake. Last week, Democrats were hoping that another mountain of pique would be built up from a molehill incident of Nominee Hoover's visit three weeks ago in Tennessee...
...University. For who suspected as little as he on returning to college this fall that he would have an opportunity to listen in on a lecture at the College de France in Paris or at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg? Both establishments seemed as firmly fixed as any mountain and Mohammed was very much engaged in Cambridge. Yet the magic carpet of the exchange professorship brings both to him in the form of the series of public lectures, being given by Professor Hazard and Professor Paul during the present half-year. The former will speak in French at 5 o'clock...
...smashed his models (TIME, March 2, 1924 et seq.). Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum. "Delighted," said Mr. Borglum, with heavy irony...
Sculptor Lukeman's work was not cut out for him. For three years he has been cutting it. With scaffolds and staccato electric drills his pygmy assistants have swarmed over the face of Stone Mountain, moulding the gigantic nose, beard, shoulders of General Lee. Often on the plains below has walked Samuel H. Venable of Atlanta. He is the spokesman of the Venable heirs who donated the memorial site...
...Sculptor Borglum referred, last fortnight, to Sculptor Lukeman's work as "the hole blown in the mountain since my absence...