Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women captives were released on the very day of their capture except the young Mexican bride who refused to leave her husband, and two of the men made their escape on the same day. That left a balance of only 18 who made the journey into the mountain lair of these bandits. Miss Aldrich did not lag behind and eventually so far behind that she was enabled to escape. She was set at liberty by her captors before she had been in their hands 24 hours, together with the other women captives, as before stated. The only ones who lagged...
...time of the Lincheng outrage, he had himself carried by coolies to the bandits' mountain lair, where he cajoled, threatened and bullied the bold, bad robbers into handing over every foreign prisoner in their power...
...singing, acting, better than ever before. The great house warmed to him, he took many curtain calls. In the last act, there was a change of scene in which the stage, masked only by volutes of steam, was transformed from "a wild region at the foot of a rocky mountain" to "the summit of the Valkyries' rock." Taucher, about to make his exit from the former setting, took a step into the steam, trod upon emptiness, plunged down 25 feet to the mouldy basement of the Metropolitan through a trap which had just been opened to receive scenery. Stagehands...
...hereafter. The stature of adults was not much over five feet. Grains of corn, corncobs, squash seeds and beans indicated that the people had practiced dry farming at a time when the region was not as arid as it now is. There were also bones of deer, mountain sheep and rabbits, remains of fibre garments and garments of twisted leather, the inevitable dice, beads of turquoise and shell. The pottery, white or light-colored with black designs, was made without potters' wheels. There were chipped stone implements. The living chambers of the houses uncovered were small - only about...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Atlantic & Pacific. He was credited with control, at one time or another, of the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the International & Great Northern, the St. Louis Southwestern, the Texas Pacific, the ron Mountain- together with the Western Union Telegraph Co. He bought arid sold and sometimes he ruined, but he always profited. After a time, he turned to more constructive practice, planned a great ocean-to-ocean railroad system- the Western Maryland, the Wabash, the St. Louis Southwestern, the Missouri Pacific...