Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creatures of the wood rush to the dwarfs. After an awful chase through gloomy mountain chasms the dwarfs force the Queen to the edge of a precipice and a thunderbolt tumbles her over. Snow White seems dead, but the dwarfs cannot bear to part from her. They let her sleep in a glass coffin. One day the Prince, wandering far and wide, hears of the girl who lies asleep in a glass box and when he sees her, kisses her. Snow White awakes and there is gaiety...
Married. Edwin Collins ("Alabama") Pitts, 26, onetime (1930-35) famed athlete of Sing Sing Prison, who after his release won permission to play professional baseball by appealing to baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; and Mary Taltha Walker, 19, fellow millworker; in York...
...newsmaker, aviation is No. 1 U. S. industry. Whether a planeful of prominent people smacks a mountain or Charles Augustus Lindbergh asks for bids for huge airliners, aviation crashes the front pages. This obscures in investors' minds the fact that as business the aviation industry is small potatoes. Last week a small, handsomely-printed volume summarized neatly and ably the striking characteristics of this diminutive industry. Its author was William Barclay Harding, who prepared it for the clients of his firm, the Wall Street house of Chas. D. Barney & Co.* Wall Street houses constantly prepare brochures...
...would go off the track or a rail come through the floor of the car. On steamers he was afraid of fire. He was relieved when he got into stage-coaches, but on one a driver was drunk, on another a wagon tongue broke, almost tipped them off a mountain. Although he does not say that he regained his health on his strenuous junket, his diary gives the impression that Southern sunshine must have been beneficial, or he could never have stood the trip home...
...along the dusty way are conveniently spaced settings for the Drinking Song from La Traviata, the duet from Madame Butterfly, the finale to the third act of Martha, the Gavotte from Manon and the Old Red Rooster arietta from She'll Be Comin' 'round the Mountain. The title song is a sweet-and-dreamy for the radio groundlings...