Word: climbers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rink prospects, with nine veterans returning, and the best Freshman squad in a decade now in its Sophomore year, are definitely above-par, and the sextet which emerges from nightly practice sessions, started Monday, should be strictly a social climber in the best League circles...
...Even for us, this is difficult, for though we can train men to become technically proficient on ice and rock, we cannot train expert mountaineers in the relatively easy mountain ranges of the East. And to be a good leader, a man must be an expert climber with at least one full season's experience in high mountain areas...
...This mouthy, pretentious, calculating little climber . . . this degraded knave . . . this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and the rest of the besotted judicial jackals . . . illiterate imbeciles . . . lick-spittle timeservers and chore-boys . . . aromatically crooked as a skunk's hind leg. . . . The corruption of these abject poltroons is merely one example of the corruption which infects our entire judicial system . . . these esurient, self-seeking herding jerks...
Enthusiast. In Boston, Stenographer Phyllis Cheyne, a mountain climber, reached her 20th-floor office every day by climbing the stairs. She said...
Years ago a rich Denverite, George Ernest Cranmer, conceived the idea of making a theater of the red rocks. White-haired, eagle-eyed little Mr. Cranmer, retired broker, skier, skater, mountain-climber, became Denver's Manager of Improvements and Parks. Four years ago CCC, the National Park Service and the city began the $750,000 job of building the theater...