Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rates quoted are per day. The variations in prices may be traced to some extent to the fact that hotels operate on both the European and American plan.) NEW HAMPSHIRE Price begins at The Bellevue, Intervale $3.50 Brocklebank Hotel, New London 3.00 Eagle Hotel, Concord 2.00 Eagle Mountain House, Jackson 4.50 The Elms, Goffs Falls 3.50 The Emerson Inn, Intervale 4.00 Fosscroft, Intervale 4.00 Exeter Inn, Exeter 3.50 Fisscroft, Intervale 4.00 Glen House, Gorham 3.50 Hanover Inn, Hanover 4.00 The Hawthorne, Jackson 3.50 Headlands, Intervale 3.00 Hotel Howard, Bartlett 3.50 Jackson Ski Club, Jackson 5.00 Kearsage Hall, North Conway...
...Japanese commander has ever behaved with such moderation. To them it reflected General Matsui's plain eagerness to induce Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to sue speedily for peace. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang had meanwhile left Nanking, which advancing Japanese forces were rapidly approaching, and arrived at the mountain resort Kuling. There German Ambassador Dr. Oskar Trautmann offered Berlin's services a.s a mediator between China and Japan, apparently was rebuffed. The Soviet Embassy reportedly sent an attache to urge Premier Chiang to join China's Kuomintang Party to the Communist International and appoint Chinese Communist General...
...cared for as to make many a spectator gasp. Well-fed, clean-uniformed Japanese infantry came next, the middle-aged troops of the Son of Heaven who are invading China while his better, hardier and younger soldiers guard Manchukuo against Soviet Russia. After the infantry came machine guns, then mountain guns dismantled and packed on skinny horses, finally rumbling heavy artillery, munitions wagons and field artillery corps-the whole Victory Parade of such length that it took half-an-hour to pass a given point...
Tamazunchale is some 500 feet about sea level. To reach Mexico City on a vast plateau 8000 feet in the air, it is necessary to close one's eyes and drive madly around the side of precipitous mountain slopes. Of course characteristic of the Mexican temperament is the fact that the mountain road was begun from Tamazunchale and from Mexico City, the center portion, and by far the most harrowing portion, being left to luck and the last. Aside from the fact that the road is unpaved, that great boulders are apt to crash down from above on the slightest...
Leaving the territory of the phlegmatic mountain dwellers, the dirty trousered, bare-chested men and the Mother Hubbarded women, the road enters Mexico City through suburbs slightly worse than Harlem, slightly better than Philadelphia's Lombard Street. Toward the center of the city, the Vagabond found himself engulfed in screaming traffic that approached from a million different directions at once. To the Mexican driver, the horn is far more important than the brake, and the velocity and direction of his vehicle depend solely on the whim of the man at the wheel. If Rhode Island motorists are the worst...