Word: aurania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skidding slid into Manhattan via Pasadena, where it had been subjected to an amateur performance. On the opening night, its author who rejoices in the name of Aurania Rouverol, made a demure speech before the curtain, saying how surprised she was that Broadway producers should have interested themselves in her homely frivolities...
...Association, Inc., which conducted the Ryndam's cruise, and one A. J. Mclntosh, assistant organizer, who anticipated the Ryndam's return by founding an International University Cruise, Inc., of his own, with Professor Thomas W. Butcher of Emporia, Kan., as president, to sail next autumn on the S. S. Aurania as a co-educational project (TIME, March...
...Ryndam backers laid claim with apparent justice to having successfully inaugurated "college travel." That they somewhat disparaged the proposed rival cruise of the Aurania by calling the latter mere "Educational travel" was understandable in view of the for- wardness with which the Aurania backers advertised their scheme, identifying it with the Ryndam cruise as if to shoulder the Uni- versity Travel Association's projected repetition into obscurity. But The Binnacle of the S. S. Ryndam had the honesty to report the remark of a shrewd student: "The idea of college travel is so much bigger than the men who have...
...ship was crowded; there were divisions of authority and petty squabblings among the leaders which lost the respect of the student body. None of these faults ought to be repeated, and all of them can be remedied. Indeed the plans for this fall of the Floating University Aurania seem to indicate that they are being remedied...
Sporting England flocked to murky Liverpool, there to watch the greatest of steeplechases. By plane, motor, train, boat, cart they came and, despite fabled post-War depression, proved so numerous that luxurious Cunard liner Aurania, 14,000 tons, lying at her dock, became an ephemeral hostelry at a, guinea "and up" per bunk, thus saving many an onlooker from a damp night on the moors or pub floors. The morning brought black skies, torrential rains. Sporting Eng land, drenched, excited, gathered at the famed Aintree course; issued 150,000 prayers for better weather; surveyed the soggy turf and swollen streams...