Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immortalize a young militiaman named Di Valero as its idea of a certified peacetime hero. In a competitive mountain-climbing hike he scrambled so far, so fast and so high that at last his nearest competitor gave up in exhaustion. Di Valero, emulating the "youth who bore 'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device Excelsior!" kept climbing until finally he fainted and died of heart failure. This exploit, according to the editor of Milizia Fascista last week, typifies the "will to win" so lacking in pre-Fascist Italians. "The heroism of Di Valero," exulted the official...
When Cecil DeMille decided to address himself to Cleopatra, the first thing he ordered was a French military survey of Egypt in 16 volumes. That work set the style for the production. When he learned that Romans cooled their banquet wines in snow, he refused to have marble dust, the usual studio equivalent, called for frost scraped from the studio refrigerator pipes. For Cleopatra to nibble, Paramount ordered ten crates of real grapes. When they went bad, after the California grape season, ten more crates were shipped from Argentina...
...next party, under Brigadier-General Charles Granville Bruce in 1922, pushed a series of camps up from the glacier. Using oxygen, Capt. J. Geoffrey Bruce and another man reached 27,300 ft., turned back utterly spent. The wet monsoons came early that year, bringing heavy snow to the bare windswept rocks near the summit. When the snow had hardened somewhat a group of five started up across the precarious North Col where the temperature probably averages -50°. An avalanche swept nine porters into a crevasse. Only two were rescued...
...years later the Britons returned to the attack. Dr. T. H. Somervell and Lieut.-Colonel E. F. Norton reached 28.200 ft. Somervell stopped, gasping horribly. Norton struggled on a few yards, reached the highest point from which any man has returned alive. He was snow-blind for days. The same year G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine started up from Camp No. 6. As they approached the peak a lone observer below saw them enveloped by a mist cloud. No one ever saw them again. It was Mallory who had answered for all Everest climbers when someone asked...
...General Göring appeared in a uniform of snow white silk from head to feet. Around his waist was a broad black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...