Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controlled of North American. Naturally he was rich. As an interesting gesture he with Vincent Astor, Marshall Field and the late Henry Devereaux Whiton financed William Beebe's expeditions to the Sargasso Sea and the Galapagos Islands-with the result that there is today a Harrison Williams Volcano in the islands. He also bought the Krupp-built Vanados, then largest yacht afloat, with a cruising radius of 12,000 mi., renamed her Warrior and refitted her for his own oceanographic and pleasure purposes. In 1926, having been a widower for eleven years, he suddenly married Mona Bush, beauteous divorced...
...feel himself part of all the color, of all the good nature, of all, the expectant enthusiasm. It will be excellent to watch The Dartmouth take the CRIMSON in its annual touch classic this afternoon, after gathering for instructions around the cone of the extinct volcano which serves the CRIMSON as a skoal bowl, and which never seems extinct...
...What we must do," cried Dr. Leo Motzkin, head of the Committee of Jewish delegations, "is to prevent the eruption of the volcano upon which we are standing...
...ward off suicidal despair Spengler recommends the psychological attitude of the Roman soldier who died at his post in Pompeii. When the volcano under civilization explodes, and the burning dust begins to descend, the more honorable Spenglerian carnivores will take it standing, polish up their buttons as the lava rises. With its men all dead but its honorable buttons bright, Western civilization can then rest forever on its yews...
...Haussman cut great swaths through the Hutter of Parisian slums. A man called Offenbach sat back in his box watching he world dance to his thinking melolics. Some where off in a back room a cynic with a long nose was muttering, We dance, but we dance upon a volcano. In such fashion did the Second Empire sweep through...