Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Party during the past decade. The G. O. P. had defied the political gods by declaring it alone was "fit to rule." It had taken credit for all the good things fate bestowed upon the land. It had promised to put the entire nation comfortably on Mount Olympus. Wrote Elmer Davis in The New Republic...
...mingling with students, pouring a few ideas into the impressionable void. For the best resident tutors, men who take the second attitude, the future holds little. Being a good fellow, drinking cocktails adolescents, does not write books, further research, or win a professorial chair. The slender stipend does not mount into a fortune which allows marriage or retirement, and the pleasure of sitting in a black tie at high table palls...
...admired save an abiding arrogance which he carries with him up to and through the gates of perdition. Miss Le Gallienne, as the servant girl whom he lives with, beats and foolishly dies for, gives an eagerly suppressed impersonation. To hear her haltingly read the Sermon on the Mount while Liliom lies dead on the police stretcher is easily worth the Repertory's $1.65 top admission price. The theatre's repertoire for the first two weeks includes Liliom and three old favorites: Camille, Peter Pan, The Three Sisters...
...South Seas and the arms of Doleres Del Rto. Joel McCrea and the chieftain's daughter run off in their B. V. D.'s and an outboard came to build houses and pick cocoa nuts on a private little Island. Paradise becomes promptly Lost through the intervention of Mount Pelee and the young lady's tribe. Mr. McCrea succeeds in straddling the smoking chasm which opens up beneath his fact, and trusty American fides prevent them from becoming release fodder for Mount Pelee. J.J.T.Jr...
Atop Sinai's Mount St. Catherine is a small, poorly constructed chapel which belongs to the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine ten miles down the massif. The uneven chapel floor shows the impress, say the monks, of St. Catherine who lay there emitting light 300 years after Emperor Maximinus had her head hacked off.* In this same vicinity where Dr. Abbot's men will measure the Sun, men long before Abram left Ur used to worship the Moon. Sinai was then the Land of Sin the moon...