Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unparalleled triumph over the Eli heavers, will toss the sphere over the Eli heavers, will toss the sphere over the gutta perchas dinner service with the speed and accuracy of Linotype. Sparkling nut brown will gurgle and splash into the guatta percha mugs with the limpidity of a mountain torrent...
...room in the Geological Museum has been fitted with cases for twelve recently acquired relief maps and models. Among these new exhibits there is a copy of the model of the Sentis, a mountain on the borders of the Swiss cantons St. Gall and Appenzell, which took first prize at the World's Exposition in Paris in 1900. The model was done by Mr. G.C. Curtis '96. There is also a relief map of southern New England done by Edwin E. Howell...
...seven cornices on the mountain of Purgatory, up which the pilgrim must climb, are the sins of pride, envy, anger, gloomy indifference, avarice, lust, and gluttony. Pride is a sin against God, for it makes man self-centered. Envy is the evil eye that looks with malignant intent upon the more successful man. Gloomy indifference is that dangerous state of mind which leads one finally to embrace sin. Lust is the flame through which every man and woman must sometime pass,--namely, the desires of the flesh...
...most modern compositions of D'Indy or some one of his sort, wrathfully departed from Sanders Theatre with the comment. "I did not come to Sanders Theatre to hear a reproduction of the noises of the street," this same music may be as pellucid as the pool of a mountain stream. All this, however, gives the Victorian little help in his present task. All of his loves--very respectable indeed, but old-fashioned--Scott, Dickens Thankeray, the great Jane, Fielding, Chaucer, Goldsmith, Byron, Wordsworth, Shakespere, and the people of the Bible, have trained and perhaps limited him to expect definiteness...
...opening act of "Believe Me,. Xantippe" takes place in New York City, and the remaining three acts have for their scene the picturesque mountain region of Southern Colorado. The plot deals with the adventures of a lively young American who wagers that he can successfully escape capture by detectives and police officers after he has pretended to commit the crime of forgery. He makes a successful escape, and the chase continues for the greater part of the play, being developed with great originality on the part of the author in a manner that is sure to continuously amuse the audience...