Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sailing time drew near it became more and more apparent that naval reductions, Prohibition treaties and all other specific topics were receding in the Prime Minister's mind, that he was setting out for a goodwill trip much like Herbert Hoover's tour of Latin America last winter as President-elect. His final word as the boat-train pulled out of crowded Waterloo Station was: "I hope to be able to do something to narrow the Atlantic...
...draperies for clothes. she left for a "vacation," and her husband promptly took an ad interim companion. There followed divorce, his marriage to a Montenegrin dancer, Olga Milanoff, for a span his mistress, a second burning of his hill house, a third building thereof. Who's Who in America this year dropped him from its roster of reputable notables...
...churches are more powerful in America than anywhere in the world except in the wilds of Tibet, and such power obstructs intellectual progress...
...Catholic church will increase in power in America. . . . It keeps a stronger hold on its children. They breed faster...
Perhaps the Vagabond has been a little late in returning to his former haunts, but registration is the least of an old rover's worries. After vagabonding all over the map of Europe and North America it is a bit difficult to slip back into the more confined regions which his duties enforce upon him. A summer which included such varied incidents as climbing the Matterhorn (without guide) and selling kitchen ware on the plains of Kansas (without guide) necessitates a lively start for a season of academic vagabonding...