Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mountain Queen. Earnest, healthy, invincibly domestic, Queen Elena of Italy must have followed the Montenegrin developments of last week with an eager heart. She is the daughter of the late King Nicholas of Montenegro; the aunt of the present Montenegrin pretender, Michael; and, should Michael renounce his rights, her son, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, might succeed to the suppositious Montenegrin throne...
...Hameln (not Hamlin) Germany, which, says legend, was plagued with rats in 1284. A strange piper in motley lured the beasts into the Weser where they drowned. Thinking him a sorcerer, the citizens refused him his pay, whereupon he piped the children of Hameln all away, "into a mountain." Possible basis of truth: the 13th Century Children's Crusade...
Commercial baseball, scandalized for some weeks before the public eye, hurried its wranglings to a close. In Chicago, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis chewed up many cigars over testimony concerning two dismissed club-managers, Tyrus Cobb (Detroit) and Tristram Speaker (Cleveland), accused of "fixing" a game in 1919 (TIME, Jan. 3). Indications were that both would be exonerated. Meantime a head bigger than theirs was chopped off. Byron Bancroft Johnson, founder of the American League in 1900 and its president ever since, accused Commissioner Landis of wilfully and improperly publishing the Cobb and Speaker evidence after receiving it from the American...
Wearing a choker collar that looked higher than ever, Kenesaw Mountain Landis sat down at his desk in Chicago and stared solemnly and petulantly at the 50 reporters who rose to say good morning to him. Without a word he handed to each a typewritten statement of 2,000 words-his decision in the baseball scandal of having given or taken bribes in 1917. The statement declared the players innocent. The "gift" from the White Sox to Boston in 1917 was an impropriety. It was not, said the statement, a crime. The Judge himself said nothing. With a twinkle...
...hours' notice, Mercedes Garcia of polyglot Pennsylvania origin marries Stephen Londreth, rancher-runaway from Philadelphia's aristocracy. The continental poetry of Wyoming, in the second place, emerges with clarity and sublimity; from the grave, racy, accurate talk of cowmen about their animals, to the ineffable silence of mountain ranges. The serious thesis, finally, that men are better outdoors than in; that the Antaeus myth is sober truth; that cities bury their builders' souls, is argued with a militance amply justified by the writer's competence. Few of his countrymen are as civilized as Author Burt...