Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the Palace eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under a pale moon, its two-story houses and paved streets dark and quiet. There was not a U. S. Marine in the place. Across the lake a pink plume of smoke rose from Mount Momotombo, most perfect of the volcanoes Sandino and his countrymen reverence as their national emblem. Farther north; 100 mi. through the jungle, was the peacetime residue of his followers, sleeping among the farms and mines of his El Cooperative Rio Coco settlement. When the car reached the main palace gate...
...absolutely innocent of responsibility for what has occurred." Days passed and no one was arrested for the crime. The body of "The Worthy Saint" was dug up and reburied. And last week his followers kept ominous silence as one by one they slid out of Managua, going north, toward Mount Tough Guy and the guns...
Among the members of the League's Honorary Advisory Board this year are James G. MacDonald, High Commissioner for German Refugees; Mary E. Wooley, president of Mount Holyoke College, Raymond Leslie Buell, Visiting Lecturer on Government; William A. Neilson '98, president of Smith College; and Sir Herbert Ames, former treasurer of the League of Nations...
...College was elected chairman of the Assembly and Robert Davidson of Amherst was elected chairman of the Council. Other officers elected were: Mr. Tobin of Clark University as head of the committee on "Reorganization of the League," Edward Geramia of Rhode Island State College and Miss Margaret Thompson of Mount Holyoke College as chairman of the two subcommittees of the committee on "Intellectual Cooperation;" Miss Barbara Meeker of Connecticut College as chairman of the committee on "The Opium Convention," A. A. Rosen of Yale University as chairman of the committee on "Mandates," and Betty Muther of Wellesley College as chairman...
...Merry Mount started off with a promising overture, stanch and hymnal. After that the orchestra seemed capable of only the most commonplace description. The Hell scene was noisy but unexciting. Bradford's passion for Marigold was expressed by a theme startlingly like "Limehouse Blues." The Puritan chorus had the richest music but it sang so often, intoned so many ''Amens" that at times the opera seemed more like a cantata, more suitable for a concert performance such as it received last spring in Ann Arbor (TIME...