Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretariat of the League of Nations, stands a handsome villa, the Villa Bartholoni. In some quarters it is expected that the future assembly hall of the League will be erected on the very ground where the Villa Bartholini rises in modest pulchritude below the deep green mountain walls, the snow-capped peaks. Not immediately, however, will the villa be razed. Last week it was rented for the month of September to an American, a woman who wished to be at hand to observe the workings of the Sixth Assembly of the League, who came to see what fruit was borne...
...arrival at Etah was strictly on schedule, desipte two nerve-racking days when the Bowdoin and Peary lay helpless in the ominous, muttering ice-floes of Melville Bay. While the ships were jammed, their crews ventured overside for snow-fights on the floes; for long walks, two miles over the groaning pan ice to the nearest open water. Animal life abounded on the frozen bay-flocks of little auks, eider duck, sportive seals and an occasional roving polar bear. One 800-lb. female bear swung up alongside the Bowdoin, was received with a bullet by MacMillan. Doctors of the party...
Tracked in the Snow Country. Best of all the cinema dogs is Rin-Tin-Tin. He is herein occupied in joining a pack of wolves with whom he is presumably related and tracking the fanged fury who killed his master. All in the cold countries. Good if you like canine romances...
Digging into the snow by night, mushing painfully on "moderately" frostbitten feet by day, the clamberers wended down as they had wended up, through their advance camp on a ridge at 18,500 ft. down to a bivouac in Windy Camp, on down through the frosted portcullis of McCarthy Gap to the foot of King Col Massif, to Cascade (Alaska), to Ogilvie Glacier, to Walsh, to Chitina (where bears had robbed their food caches), to Trail End, to Kubrick...
...would further aid his navigators by having them drop, as they fly, minims of potassium permanganete upon the ice-floes. The purple stains moisture would make of these droppings would be readily visible trailblazers from quite a height, providing no snow fell...