Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Above the reception room mantel was a stone-hewn hammer & sickle and a portrait of Dictator Stalin. Drinking champagne, but not touching the bountiful caviar and vodka, Mr. Chamberlain stood below a portrait of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff all evening, talked with Comrade Maisky for a half hour, departed at n p.m., whereupon the orchestra began to swing...
Feature of the afternoon was Ted Schoenberg's 4:30 flattening of Bill Stone with a three-quarter nelson in the 126 pound division. Schoenberg, repeating his victory in Saturday's close Columbia meet, again showed his steady improvement as a first-string wrestler...
When questioned about university dramatics, Welles said, "It seems that a good proportion of the members of both the American and English stage have served their apprenticeship in college and school dramatics. As a matter of fact, college dramatics seem to be almost a stepping-stone to success in the theatre. As for myself, I guess I am the exception to the rule; for I have had only four years of schooling in my life...
...Mont Blanc (15,781 ft.), so named to commemorate the feat of Achille Ratti and a fellow priest, Monsignor Luigi Grasselli, two of the most adventurous mountain climbers in Italian history, who first blazed the trail in 1890. Another monument to the Pope's Alpine enthusiasm: a stone tablet in a little church at Macugnaga, at the foot of Monte Rosa, celebrating the first conquest of its highest peak (15,217 ft.) from the Italian side-most daring of the 200 Alpine ascents made during his lifetime...
Hannibal Hooker sets out from his Hoosier Quaker home to become a minister and to mend the world singlehanded. Before long he finds himself extolling Mammon in the pulpit of a brand-new stone temple and wishing he loved a brand-new, stone-cold wife for something besides her money. His mind cracks, and he disappears...