Word: sierra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High Sierra (Warner). After Prohibition the gangster as an everyday aspect of U. S. life began to go the way of the Indian and the cowboy. The most recent gangster picture to shoot its way out of Hollywood has less of realistic savagery than of the quaint, nostalgic atmosphere of costume drama...
...arty Sierra Madre, Los Angeles suburb, artists painted models in the streets. In front of Portland, Ore.'s handsome neo-Georgian Museum of Art (its façade draped with red, white and blue bunting) a WPA brass band trumpeted God Bless America, while museum attendance jumped from 75 to 400 daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design...
...then the seaward corridor of the Belgian Congo; then Angola (Portuguese) ; then Southwest Africa and the Union of South Africa, which are British. North and west of Gabon lie the Cameroons (French), Nigeria (British), Dahomey and Togo (French mandate), the Gold Coast (British), the Ivory Coast (French), Liberia (free), Sierra Leone (British), French Guinea, Gambia (British, with the harbor of Bathurst) and Sénégal (with Dakar, the French base on Africa's westernmost shoulder-point). Gabon is about equidistant (2,000 mi.) from Dakar and Cape Town...
Next day, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, Cecil Wetzel, a lumberman, ex-collegiate wrestler, driving a logging truck through the thick woods, was stopped by a beak-nosed man in a sedan who asked: "How the hell do I get out of here?" Wetzel stared at the man and at the curly-haired child beside him. He stepped out of his truck and demanded: "How about that baby?" The beak-nosed man yanked out a revolver. Wetzel dived at him, overpowered him and, with the help of another lumberman who came running, tied...
...minds, the thudding hoofs were coming closer. By the grandstand they flashed: Austin Taylor's Whichcee in front, Seabiscuit half a length behind. Rounding into the backstretch, the old trouper kept up with Whichcee's swift pace. Down the long stretch, silhouetted against the purple Sierra Madres, the Biscuit seemed glued to Whichcee's tail. Louder & louder the crowd roared as they seesawed coming into the homestretch-Seabiscuit nosing in front, then falling back, then in front again. Approaching the grandstands, Red Pollard flipped his whip and the Biscuit, in as dramatic a finish as has ever...