Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mountain climbing came into its own 98 years ago, thanks largely to a London physician named Albert Smith who could not keep his enthusiasm to himself. Among the first ever to scale white-domed Mont Blanc, the highest (15,781 ft.) of Alpine peaks, Smith produced a play based on his trek. It was no great shakes as drama, but it caught on like the Wild West shows in the U.S., ran six years in London, and gave people who had never seen a mountain the urge to climb...
...active member of the board of trustees of various schools, including Smith and Groton, in which his son is enrolled. Mrs. Hofer, his wife, will assist at social functions in Adams House...
...Feeney '50, Editor in Chief; Edward Tipton Kenyon '50, Managing Editor; Donald M. Landis '50, Business Manager; R. Johnson Shortlidge '50, Register Editor and Sports Editor; Edward B. Ayres '50, Activities and Organizations Editor; Thomas Holmquist '50, Biographies Editor; Andrew S. Kaufman '51, Assistant Business Manager; Geoffrey Groff-Smith '50, Photographic Manager; and David P. Lighthill '50, Feature Editor...
...reporters hit the foyer at a dead run, tore through the lobby, and smashed the nose of a stuffed deer on their dash to pressroom telephones. "Bulletin! Bulletin!" shouted Tony Vaccaro of the Associated Press. Said Smith to the U.P.: "Flash!" Bob Nixon yelped at the International News Service switchboard: "Flash, goddammit, gimme the desk!" At 11:05, bells on U.P. and I.N.S. tickers in hundreds of newspapers signaled the big news flash. Three minutes later, the A.P.'s bulletin was on the wire...
...slang. A few pages of it are about all most readers can stand. As a result, the Knight of the Mournful Countenance is handed down by hearsay as nothing more than the original nut who tilted at windmills, and Miguel de Cervantes as a long-winded sort of Thorne Smith of the Renaissance...