Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Home Life. Terrible are the winds and temperatures of Antarctica. On many a winter's day, explorers shiver in weather 70 or 80 degrees below zero, no degrees below freezing. For the foundations of their six houses, they must use ice. Gales will blow great banks of snow against doors and windows...
More than three miles tall, the "Mountains of the Moon" tower above Central Africa, regal in tremendous ermine robes of perpetual snow. Last week a white King & Queen passed with the pomp of a state visit before the white Moon Mountains. Black buck Negroes and black buxom Negresses prostrated themselves, as was fitting, before His Majesty Albert I, King of the Belgians and of Belgian Congo Blackamoors-and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The white Sovereigns, complacent, were on tour through their Afric domains, which are larger in area than all Western Europe and contain almost as many Blackamoors as does...
...sheer indifference he allows himself to be seduced by the daughter, whom he marries because he has got her with child. Irritated by these human complications, he escapes to the last island, a mere pile of rocks in the North. He finds solitude at last; hunger and blockades of snow. In a frenzy of lonely remorse he staggers to the icebound shore, but sees not a sail...
Lost in the Arctic. In 1913, Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson led an expedition for the Canadian government into the Arctic. Four men became cut off from the main party and were never heard from. Ten years later, H. A. and Sidney Snow set out with cameras to discover what happened to the four men. Lost in the Arctic is an authentic and thrilling record of the Snow expedition. They went up the west coast of Alaska, hunting whales and walruses, lassoing a 2,200-pound polar bear and taking him aboard ship alive, hobnobbing with colonies of seals, strange birds, Eskimos...
Chicken a la King. Now that summer has come, it is good to see Ford Sterling on the silver screen. He has a cool countenance and, at one point, he becomes covered with snow. In a quiet way he is funny. He plays a middle-aged married man named Horace Trundle who is shorn of his bankroll by two chorus girls in the accepted Gentlemen Prefer Blondes fashion. In the end, his wife, Erne (Carol Holloway), gets him back. The cast is capable: Nancy Carroll as one of the girls...