Word: mount
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...from the bourgeois hustle and bustle of the Square, set back in a cluster on Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge's own Fifth Avenue, lie three of the most amazing clubs in the world. Their initiation fee, a mere seventy-five to a hundred and ten dollars, is the only concrete barrier to membership. Their quarters are small but comfortable. Their purpose is neither exactly intellectual nor precisely social; it is to sell clothing...
...unique business technique. The three-button-natural-shoulder-loose-fitting long coats which they produce are, in their eyes, works of art, and they should be sold as such. The ordinary good tailor won't sell a suit unless it fits well; he's a piker compared with the Mount A. Street trio. They won't sell a suit unless it fits the personality of the buyer. Every piece of clothing that goes out of the little brick shops is designed to fill a definite function in the wordrobe of its owner...
...swim the Narrows; the tides are too swift, the water too cold. The Narrows make one of the Northwest's dramatic views-the dark green evergreens and the far peaks of the Olympics above the opposite shore, the wide sweep of water beyond Fox Island and Point Defiance, Mount Rainier in the east, and directly below, the shimmering green water, flicked with white caps as the tides change...
...Rite, which has caused high-brow audiences to rise, shout and pound on their neighbors' skulls in ecstasy, offered a serious problem. To match its cosmic hullabaloo, nothing less than a planetary cataclysm would do. So Disney men began studying nebulae and comets at California's Mount Wilson Observatory, mugged up on theories of protozoic life, earthquakes and other geologic upheavals, did portraits of every prehistoric monster in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History...
Long before Fantasia was finished, expenses began to mount, and fellow Hollywoodians began to whisper again about "Disney's Folly." With $200,000 spent on Stokowski's fancy recordings, and a technical bill that overtops Snow White's, the total figure for the production amounted to $2.250.000. Because Engineer Garity's new sound mechanism is so complicated and expensive, only twelve theatres at a time will be equipped to show Fantasia, and RCA sound-equipment manufacturers figure that it will take several years before small-town cinema houses can get the gadgets to perform...