Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Master Mind." Melodramatic, Attorney Monaghan pictured a Master Mind of the liquor ring, a Kenesaw Mountain Landis of bootlegging, a racketeering Will H. Hays. "He is like a giant spider in the middle of a great web with eyes in front and behind. A man who sees everything, knows everything and controls everything in the underworld," said Mr. Monaghan, but did not name any name. The diversion of 350,000 gallons of pure grain alcohol from Philadelphia throughout the land was described as the Master Mind's greatest recent coup. In addition to being the upkeeper...
...late years, inspiration has given way to rules. Company officers, forming the Committee on Nomenclature, methodically assign prefixes, thus: Mt., or Mountain for observation cars containing sections; Saint or Mac for cars with twelve sections, one drawing room; Silver for the California Limited of the Santa Fe; Great for the Great Northern Oriental Limited; Sunset for Sunset Limited of the Southern Pacific...
From Alpine to Pulpito, Mexico, is another stretch of road theoretically under construction; and another further southwest. In between, the Orient has two good divisions, the Mountain running through Chihuahua City, and the Pacific, wiggling to Topolobampo on the Gulf of California...
...last week, that inhabitants of Trebizond were totally unprepared when its mountain guardians, reliable for centuries, failed to guard...
...Kentucky Mountain Fantasies the noisy "Funeralizing of Crickneck" is broad comedy which might have any superstitious community for setting, but "Napoleon Crossing the Rockies" is unique. A railroad representative tries to bully two old folks to sell their property. Steadfast as the Napoleon of their ditty they refuse this stranger's heap of gold, but sell to a suave acquaintance who gives the old woman a chain of gaudy beads, and the old man new strings for his fiddle...