Word: afield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merits. The feminist controversy between Mrs. Russell and Captain Ludovici (Hypatia v. Lysistrata) was very readable, though biased on both sides. Gerald Heard's Narcissus?An Anatomy of Clothes qualified in its own right. But for the most part it seems as if the Duttons have gone unwisely far afield for writers and subjects, thinning out a superb vintage with hasty and insipid dilutions...
Explorers MacMillan and Amundsen having failed to settle the question by their flights last year, the 1926 explorers are already afield. Despatches from the snow motors division of the expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce (TIME, Jan. 4) reported within the fortnight the breakdown of two "iron malamutes" (tractors). Husky-dogs have been substituted to freight supplies to Point Barrow, where Captain George Wilkins will arrive in April with his pilots and two Fokker planes. One pilot, Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson has flown over 60,000 miles all alone in the Alaskan airmail service between Fairbanks and McGrath...
Hello, Lola. Booth Tarkington's novelized report of puppy love and its perils reached the stage agreeably enough and amused many people. It has now wandered farther afield to become a musical comedy, rather less happily. Reference is made of course to Seventeen...
...Times?romanesque nose, sagging eyes, together with the skinny neck and long horselike upper lip which are so often the characteristics of the more unfortunate female members of the British nobility. She saw herself described as "a pretty young woman." The Daily News (for gum-chewers) went even farther afield...
...Ryerson (finance), Albert W. Sherer, William Scott Bond, Charles W. Gilkey, Thomas E. Donnelly, Robert L. Scott and Dr. Frank Billings, over the baffling question of Dr. Burton's successor. Every week they met, soon eliminating as unsuitable all prospects on the home campus, casting their eyes afield now upon this capable small-college administrator in the East, now upon that efficient personality in a History Department of the Far West; or again, upon an editor, reputed as sagacious as he was vigorous; upon a divine, a barrister, a minor college official whose good works had shewn forth...