Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finsteraarhorn, 14,026 ft., the highest mountain in the Bernese Alps. Down to the famed Jungfrau Joch Hotel. Up the Schreckhorn, 13,386 ft. Down to Grindelwald. FOOD. A steak as thick as the climber's thong-bound wrist. Such was the Alpine exploit performed in one day last week by Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado of Japan, first Alpinist to scale either the Finsteraarhorn or the Schreckhorn this year...
...fringed the mountain ridges. Lieutenants Smith and Williams, suddenly lost to each other, swung off on separate courses. Late in the afternoon they reached Selfridge Field, 40 minutes apart, and were surprised not to find Flyer Bettis there before them. An hour passed; the sun sank, and still no Bettis. It looked odd. Flyer Bettis, winner of last year's Pulitzer Race, was no man to loaf along. . . . Lieutenants Smith and Williams left Michigan in the dark, for Pennsylvania...
...weeks ago, late one night, seven grimy miners toiled in the zinc-and spar-veined bowels of a mountain near Salem, Ky. With a surly roar, the wall of their tunnel collapsed behind them. Two men dashed for the shaft, shouting, "The cut's pullin', boys!" Another man, Roy James, could have escaped, but tore back the other way, through a foaming flood of subterranean water, to warn his comrades, George Castiller, Harry Watson, U. B. Wilson and Randolph Cobb. . . . Out in the shaft, Garth Heare, the mine's superintendent, labored night and day to drill through...
...Dawes: "If President Coolidge wants to pose for fishing pictures, all right, but I won't." At White Pine Camp the President has not been photographed in actual piscatorial encounter, but his merest fishing experience has been nationally recounted. Mr. Dawes intends to capture trout in the Rocky Mountain streams, unseen, unpublished. Four years come and go, and again sweltering delegates in some hot metropolis cast their state's several votes as a unit for some Democratic Presidential candidate. Again they cast them, again and again,* until in desperation they compromise on some one who can attain...
When the storm cleared Frãulein Lucker staggered down the mountain, secured a rescue party, fainted with exhaustion and despair when told that her fiance and his three companions were found dead...