Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lando's resultant activities were most distressing to another family group, headed by Salvo, a wealthy social climber, who prospered on unscrupulous control of Sicilian sulphur mines. Salvo had an insane wife, a jovial old-maid sister, and an invalid daughter, Dianella, of delicate charm. Having married off the old maid, sight unseen, to the prince, Lando's widowed father, Salvo, aspired to bind himself yet closer to the aristocratic Laurentanos by marrying Dianella to Lando...
Lastly, His Majesty bestowed a blue garter worked with gold, upon William Henry Grenfell, 72, Baron Desborough, now president of the British Imperial Council of Commerce, but in his day a famed climber of the Alps and U. S. Rocky Mountains and a swimmer of such prowess that he twice breasted the Niagara River...
Meanwhile, The American Girl bucked storms. Flying high, flying low, sleet and wind cut into her. Once Miss Elder, unafraid, climber out onto the tail of the ship to balance it. In perilous spells she relieved her co-pilot at the levers. Two thirds of the way across, they veered still further south of their course to avoid a low pressure storm area. Then the oil presure fell. Part of the gasoline supply had been dumped to lighten the ship in its fight against the storm. They knew that their time was short...
...rigors which they were to face before their return they would never, never have gone. They went. And soon the first ridge of old egg shells left by summer visitors to western Vermont met our gaze. Commander Fish, who is a scientist as well as a lecturer, a mountain climber and an Elk stopped to inspect these. Old Mumbley-Jumbley, one of the natives in the train, said that these shells were from local Baptists who each year made a pilgrimage to the spring about four feet above the first story...
...Finsteraarhorn, 14,026 ft., the highest mountain in the Bernese Alps. Down to the famed Jungfrau Joch Hotel. Up the Schreckhorn, 13,386 ft. Down to Grindelwald. FOOD. A steak as thick as the climber's thong-bound wrist. Such was the Alpine exploit performed in one day last week by Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado of Japan, first Alpinist to scale either the Finsteraarhorn or the Schreckhorn this year...