Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastern time. Thus the President, rising at 7 a. m. by his watch, rose at 5 a. m. by Black Hills' time. He has on several occasions arrived at Rapid City ahead of his staff; and his secretary, Everett Sanders, now goes to bed at 8:30 p. m. (Mountain Time...
...Coolidges are vacationing because it's above the 3,500-foot elevation (TIME, June 20, p. 5, last col.). There's a big grizzly mounted and some pictures in the Smithsonian Institution that prove it. The pictures show where the bear was killed by Pete Peterson, Cascade mountains, elevation, 7,000. The pictures also show on the grizzly, not 15 minutes dead, FLIES-LOTS OF 'EM. Farther east you go, the worse the flies are. As for mosquitoes, they are one of the joy-killers in mountain climbing. They will be found right at the snow...
...edifice of imperial magnificence, begun by the Spanish Viceroy Don Matias de Galvez (1783), the coffin of Señora Calles was lifted from the hearse and borne into one of the huge, resplendent grand salons. An airplane droned overhead, scattering roses; and through a blue haze the sacred mountains Iztaccihuatl (White Woman) and Popocatepetl (Smoke Mountain) seemed brooding. Simple peons, kneeling in the lovely, verdant Bosque de Chapultepec, muttered prayers half pagan, half Roman Catholic to Iztaccihuatl who they fancy resembles the white, reclining form of a pagan goddess -now somewhat confused with the Virgin Mary...
...Little Mme. Miura's fingers are like daisy petals in careful array. Her voice carries a suggestion of tartness. Her movements are all nicely studied. Her role is that of a 16-year-old maiden of ancient Japanese legend, in love with a Buddhist monk from the white mountain tops, possessed by a tyrannous Daimio, lord of the low, broad acres...
There appear side-lights on family life and every-day occurence like "Bashan and I", (Henry Holt and Co.) a dog story. But not until 1925 was there definite proof that Thomas Mann had entered into the didactic and reflective period of his life. "The Enchanted Mountain" has nothing to do anymore with actions and happenings of which Buddenbrooks are as full as an old chronicle. It is purely experience of the soul, action-or not even that,-reflection of the mind. Seven years, spent in a sanitarium in the Swiss Mountains-what can you expect of such an absurd...