Word: vesuviuses
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Italy-Dalmatia. Not only were Naples and Sicily snowmantled, not only did Vesuvius and Mount Etna spurt red ashes into a white storm; but the cold grew so intense in Dalmatia-across the Adriatic Sea from Italy-that the surface of a minor mountain range contracted, causing severe landslides near Spalato...
...University of Geneva headed by Professor L. W. Collet, who will take charge of the combined parties. The party will climb many interesting mountains, among which are six Alpine peaks, including the Matterhorn, where the party will spend three days. On August 10 the party will visit Mr. Vesuvius, and from there will go to the Balearic Islands which lie out of the beaten tourist track and especially interesting for their wave worn coast...
...Come on, Salome, get hot," shouts Cannon-Ball Casey, engineer de. luxe, to his sawed-off but antagonistic fireman, Luke Beamish, who blows off quite as much steam as either the classy "Oriole Limited" or the relic of the Gay Nineties, the "Isobel." And between "the greatest mistake since Vesuvius" and the little "pipesqueale" there materializes enough excitement to keep the two locomotives "throttle up" throughout most of the picture and the audience free of the blase boredness which the average moving picture of the day almost invariably provokes...
...inhabitants have recently completed a subway under the driving impetus of Fascismo. Moreover the boulevard along the seafront, long pot-holed and undulant, is now smooth. His Majesty looked upon these things and found them good. That night fireworks spurted up from a barge anchored in the bay, and Vesuvius made notable His Majesty's visit by an almost polite eruption. No lava spilled from the great cone, but jets of pinky-lighted steam spurted high, portentous rumblings were heard, and few rocks were belched...
There follow in rapid succession the Vale of Tempe, the summit of Parnassus, scaling the Acropolis at midnight, wooing the Maidens of the Porch by Attic moonlight, swimming the Hellespont, climbing Stromboli and Vesuvius, trying to swim from whirling Charybdis to rocky Scylla, singing "Funiculi, Funicula" in the Blue Grotto to an English girl with an Alice-blue Rolls-Royce, climbing Aetna, playing Ulysses ("handsome, heaven-sent Greek") to a 65-year-old bobbed grandmother's Calypso, and reading "The Return of Ulysses" at Ithaca, having completed what was begun, a trip in the wandering wake of Ulysses doing...