Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deep in the hot valley between the snowy volcanoes of Popocatépetl ("Smoking Mountain") and Ixtaccihuatl ("White Woman") Mexican peons in the hamlet of Amecameca one day last week were aroused from their mid-morning siesta by the noise of an airplane. Looking up, they spied an old trimotored Ford belonging to Compania Mexicana de Aviación, a subsidiary of Pan American Airways Chartered half an hour before by Hamburg-American Line, the plane was chugging its way from Mexico City to Guatemala. The courteous Mexican pilot had detoured from the regular course because he wished to show...
...Back at once circled the pilot in search of a landing place. Before he could find one, his plane was caught in a strong air current, slithered downward, crashed in a fountain of flame on the rocky saddle between the two dormant volcanoes. When rescuers climbed up over the mountain flank, most of the 14 bodies were incinerated beyond recognition...
...hotel on a mountain peak just inside the Italian border, an international collection of travelers are interned until Rome has time to see who is going to fight whom in an impending war. There are a pair of honeymooning Britons, a German scientist, a French Communist, all of whom give every evidence of being men of good will. There are also a French armament maker, his Russian mistress, Irene (Lynn Fontanne), a troupe of U. S. showgirls whom she calls "obvious little harlots," and their blatant but philosophical master of ceremonies, Harry Van (Alfred Lunt). When a nearby Italian airport...
John W. Lagsdin '37: "The Good-Neighbors Policy," by Franklin D. Roosevelt '04; Paul Killiam, Jr. '37: Excerpt from "The Magnetic Mountain," by Cecil Day-Lewis; Edward J. Duggan '37: "To the Youth of America," by Franklin D. Roosevelt '04; John A. Sullivan, Jr. '38: "The Impeachment of Warren Hastings," by Edmund Burke; Edward O. Miller '37: Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Address, by Walter Lippman...
...Mountain a poor family within a few rice grains of starvation sells the oldest 'daughter, Kimi, to a procurer when she is not yet 16. She is apprenticed to a house in the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo, where the streets are well kept and the architecture more uniform than in most other quarters. When her year's apprenticeship is up and she is ready for work, a rich businessman named Yamano takes a liking to her, reserves her for himself. Naive, lonely, she is soon fond...