Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mansbridge, the son of a mechanic, founded the Worker's Educational Association in 1903 in England. The Association has since become a powerful institution, and its instigator having promoted the movement in other parts of the globe, especially in Australia...
...motion picture man, when he secured the first front-line close-ups of the Balkan Wars in 1912. He went with Shackleton to the suburbs of the South Pole. He went north with Stefansson. He was a War aviator. These last three years he has been beating through tropical Australia for the British Museum. Last week Captain Wilkins announced that he would act upon Stefansson's theory that a man may live off the Arctic as long as ammunition lasts. For this reason, he will take only two-weeks' supply of food in the planes, quite contrary to Amundsen...
Eight months ago Lord Apsley, eldest son of the Earl of Bathurst, set out for Australia as an "emigrant" under the alias "George Bott." Last week, returning to England, he vouchsafed the following statement: "I worked on one farm for 20 shillings a week. . . . So far as my experiences went as an emigrant, I am convinced there is no difficulty in getting a job in Australia. A man can start on his own in a comparatively shorter time than in any other part of the world and make a comfortable living. ... No one should go out there with the idea...
Just Beyond. It seems scarcely necessary to complain about this venture. It was a story of drought in Australia and closed after seven performances...
...have concert engagements in America and Australia for several years, and am obliged to carry them out. I left Russia without a cent and found it necessary therefore to sell my soul to the devil. Yes, I sold it, and it is not my fault. As soon as I fulfill these contracts, I hope to be able to accept your invitation to come to Moscow and Leningrad...