Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...windows filled with things he wished his friends had given him for Christmas and wishing in vain be could return most of the things they did give him. Friends pass by. Some with tanned faces that bespeak of southern holidaying. A lucky few with ruddy faces who had found snow in which to ski and rub the protesting faces of their loves. And all to the great irritation of the Vagabond, shouting a Happy New Year. Then and there he makes a solemn vow never to wish more than one such felicitation. Repetition strains the worth of sentiment. Besides...
Growing like a snowball rolling down a hill, skiing had 50,000 U. S. devotees last year, may have 100,000 this year. Like golfers, skiers are perpetually dissatisfied -with snow conditions, terrain, the necessity for climbing up a hill after sliding down. To find the miseries of skiing at a minimum, skiers all over the world have heretofore had to go to the Alps, preferably St. Moritz. Last week, the tiny tank town of Ketchum, Idaho (pop. 220) was ready to set itself up as famed St. Moritz's U. S. rival. Just outside Ketchum...
...Mountain routes. Sun Valley-then a nameless dent in a State previously famed mainly for potatoes and Senator Borah- was Count Schaffgotsch's choice. Among its natural advantages: slopes free from timber, surrounding peaks up to 12,000 ft. above sea level to shut off cold northern winds, snow from December to April, sun hot enough for skiing without a shirt...
Most artificial advantage of Sun Valley is Sun Valley Lodge. It is built of concrete poured into timber molds to look like wood, decorated by Marjorie Oelrichs, wife of Bandleader Eddy Duchin. whose theory was that its guests would be so sick of snow that anything white would be offensive. Most delectable feature of Sun Valley for ardent skiers will be the world's most elaborate rigs for pulling humans up hills. An ordinary rope ski-tow, with padded bars to lean on, will function on Proctor Mountain (named for Sun Valley's ski expert and chief...
...skiing neurosis to the point of mania. Owner Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants planned to turn his baseball park into a wintersports paradise by building a ski-slide from the top of the grandstand to the outfield, installing a toboggan run. As an improvement on snow trains, Saks-Fifth Avenue-which last year installed the first of Manhattan's now numerous indoor department-store ski slides-chartered the S. S. Paris as a "snowboat." Advertisements said it would sail Jan. 16, with a ski-slide on deck, to get skiers to St. Moritz in ten days. Skiing...