Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Keith-Albee--"Thunder Mountain", continuous...
...blond man of average height, with a mustache in the Kaiser Wilhelm manner, an inadequate nose, and a body that astonishingly, at the slightest excuse, erected mountain-ranges, mounds and melons of muscles-Eugene Sandow, like Mark Hanna, Lillian Russell, George Coxey, John L. Sullivan, was one of the outstanding idols of a period that worshiped modesty in all forms, including the nude. Ladies would prod his dorsal, deltoid and pectoral development with carefully gloved fingers and ask if he were real. Sporting gentlemen with Damn-my-eyes and By-God-Sirs would lay their wagers on him when...
...figures, the fundamental formula for success stands out vividly, "Be born in Vermont and move to Massachusetts". That this recipe worked in the case of President Coolidge, regardless of the man's nature, is a sure proof of its reliability. Somewhere in the rocky soil of the Green Mountain state lies the secret of prominence as yet unexploited by realtors. Judicious advertising among eugenic-minded people might cause an emigration to Vermont. Using the Independent's statistics as a basis it is not difficult to compute that 519 1-2 couples so enticed would give the real estate can increased...
...raccoon hunters reported hearing a crash like that of a falling building during the night near Stone Mountain. Searching parties went out. Seven mail planes and three Army planes scoured the landscape. Three, four days passed and Ames was not yet found...
...been donated the the higher institutes of learning and imposing plants and Gothic quadrangles have sprung up on every hand. Only the reward of the vital instructor remains practically unchanged and the average full professor in American colleges is receiving the munificent salary of $3392 per annum. "Verily the mountain hath labored and brought forth a mouse...