Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily 150-word gag from Bob Burns, onetime vaudevillian whose radio hillbilly and cinema humor and music on a home-made "bazooka" were last week estimated in Variety to be earning him $400,000 a year."* Pictorial humor was to be furnished by Esquire Cartoonist Paul Webb's "Mountain Boys," a group of grotesque, bearded, barefooted figures. In the current Esquire one of them is discovered by the side of a balky old car, gawking at an aged woman who is hanging from a nearby tree with a crank in her hand. Caption: "C'mon down...
When the Federal Council asked Dr. Jones to reawaken U. S. Protestantism, that good man retreated to the Himalayas. There in mountain solitude he studied, prayed, meditated for three months. This summer he emerged, proceeded to Capetown, Johannesburg and other South African communities, arrived fortnight ago at Beaver College at Jenkintown, Pa. There with other members of the National Preaching Mission Dr. Jones prayed, played, planned...
...desolate that it fills our hearts with an utterly inexpressible tumult of afflicting and conflicting feelings and emotions. . . . You have been robbed and despoiled of all things. You have been hunted and set upon to death in cities and villages, in dwellings of men and on mountain tops. . . . These tragic happenings in Spain speak to Europe and the whole world and proclaim once more to what extent the very foundations of all order, of all culture, of all civilization, are being menaced. This menace, it must be added, is all the more serious, more persistent, more active, by reason...
Among U. S. economists. Stuart Chase has a reputation for being the best storyteller of the lot. Master of the art of leading audiences up the mountain, he has held out bold and attractive visions of happy economic futures, plausible-sounding and easily-attained, in most of the sprightly, bright, informal, argumentative volumes he has written in the past eleven years. Interspersing his books with anecdotes, personal reminiscences, moral tirades against waste, he has always discussed human problems as an economist, economic problems as an evangelist, political problems as an engineer, and philosophic problems as an irascible citizen who wants...
...book is somewhat like an old-fashioned geography turned upside down. Beginning with a discussion of rivers, plains, mountain ranges, rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster...