Word: adirondacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reticence about his past, his phenomenal golf and his high spirits had combined to make him a highly publicized social lion, crony of cinemactors like Bing Crosby. Oliver Hardy and Guy Kibbee (TIME. July 19). Identified by his fingerprints, La Verne Moore was extradited and brought back to the Adirondack summer resort of Elizabethtown, N. Y. for trial. First stage in the case of People of New York v. La Verne Moore took place last week...
Famed because it still uses simplified spelling ("Club Kalendars ar being maild well before Christmas"), the Lake Placid Club in New York's Adirondack Mountains is rich, regards itself as a solid U. S. institution. Year ago, as a fillip to U. S. music, the Club announced two prizes for new compositions by U. S. citizens: $500 for a choral work, $1,000 for a quintet for piano and strings...
...Peter Nostrand, a good-humored playboy who, while trying to escape from a bench warrant in a divorce suit, encounters Millicent Kendall (Ann Sothern') trying to escape from an undesirable suitor. By the time both have been chased by the same motorcycle policeman into refuge at the same Adirondack cabin, Nostrand thinks Millicent is a summons server, she thinks he is a gangster. It takes the arrival at the cabin of a shaggy local trapper (Slim Summerville), a real gangster, a machine-gun posse led by the local sheriff (John Qualen), a blizzard and a tame rabbit to relieve...
...Phelps Smith alone stayed on. As shrewd and eccentric as his father, Phelps added to his holdings until he had some 30,000 acres of Adirondack resort land, including 23 miles of navigable waterway and ten lakes. Neighbors like Edward F. Hutton and Ogden Reid collected their mail from Paul Smith's township postoffice, used electricity from Paul Smith's Light & Power Co., shunted their private cars onto a railway spur that the Smiths built from the New York Central at Lake Clear Junction. When the old hotel burned to the ground in 1930, Phelps Smith remarked that...
Beyond that Phelps Smith said little, leaving the rest to his two executors, the Adirondack National Bank & Trust Co. and Attorney John M. Cantwell, of Malone, both well trained to accept the Smith word as law. Last week no Adirondack native doubted that Paul Smith's College of Arts & Sciences would soon be a proud reality...