Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thanksgiving night in 1915 William Joseph Simmons, preacher, traveling salesman and experienced promoter of fraternal orders, gathered some friends on Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., before a 'fiery cross' and administered the oath of the 'Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.' A state charter gave corporate rights to his organization. As Imperial Wizard, Simmons could hold office for life and have final authority unless opposed by two-thirds of the Imperial Kloncilium, council of supreme officers and delegates from other states. . . . Simmons met financial difficulties. The order would have languished had not new impetus...
...lean, spare, silent man of the hills is he. Mountain trails and trout streams he knows. If blindfolded in the dense woods, he could find his way out without bumping into a single tree. Ormond (erroneously called "Omar") Doty is an able guide and fishing companion of President Coolidge. Between them has grown a friendship which is shown by their understanding silence when together...
...Bettis, 33, crack army airman and winner of last year's Pulitzer Speed Trophy; at Washington, D. C., of spinal meningitis. Lieutenant Bettis' fatal illness was due to inflammation of the nerve sheaths due to injuries received a fortnight ago when his plane crashed against a mountain near Lewistown, Pa. in a fog (TIME, Sept...
...fringed the mountain ridges. Watch as he would, Flyer Bettis could not keep Flyers Smith and Williams in view. There they were. There they weren't. He started lifting his plane out of those mountains. It was just about the place that Charlie Ames, the air mail pilot, had pitched into a hogsback last year and lain dead for 10 days before they found him, . . . Lieutenant Bettis crashed...
...irony, to a man with broken jaws. Rain set in and he cupped his hands, slaking off some of his delirium. Planes droned overhead, at intervals, but from their sound it was plain that the wrecked Curtiss racer was invisible from above. Flyer Bettis eyed the downslope of the mountain and started creeping on his three good members, with a limp thing dragging over the windfalls. At clearings he would pull himself erect and hop along from tree to bush, every jolt costing him a groan. At seven o'clock by his watch he heard automobiles, and two hours...