Word: ascended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Broadway Nights. A cabaret piano-pounder (Sam Hardy) teaches his pretty wife (Lois Wilson) the steps and tunes that lead to the top of the song-and-dance heap. Unfortunately, he permits rolling dice to crush his moral fibre, so she leaves him and starts to ascend alone. Abjuring all her rich admirers in the moment of glittering triumph, she returns to her husband, who promises never to do it again. The film was made in Manhattan, enriched with authentic local color from the footlight district, blessed with an intelligent scenario...
...trip, which will take the greater part of the summer, Ostheimer hopes to ascend four of the highest mountains in the Rockies; Mount Columbia, the North Twin, and Mounts Clemenceau and Robson, a feat which has never been accomplished before. Seven men will go on the expedition, two besides Ostheimer being Harvard undergraduates...
...weather conditions are favor able while the party is in camp it will try to ascend Mount Alberta, which was first scaled in 1925 by a party of Japanese. Hans Fuhrer who will be the guide on this trip was also on the Japanese expedition and it is rumored that a silver ice axe, a gift from the Emperor of Japan to the leader of the party, was left at the peak...
...prejudices of the South, and replaced every copy of Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris with a copy of Prejudices, by H. L. Mencken, where will he find victims for his purifying sword? With nothing left to attack, he would be a pitiable object. Perhaps he would ascend to Heaven in a chariot of fire...
...Wells believes that as our life span increases we ascend the spiral of progress. Sex, he thinks, becomes of less importance and civilization attains maturity. By artificially living longer we are doing something quite out of the range of the other animals. Thus, homo sapiens leaves his competitors far behind in the race, and in his lengthened life can use his mating energies for better things. The results are interesting when this theory of Mr. Wells is applied to the lives on alligators and caterpillars. The latter live only a few days as adult butterflies mate, flutter about...