Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bargains than they will be in 1938 as prices inevitably rise to offset devaluation. Canadians are in the same state of mind as U. S. citizens and last week Canadian Pacific had many unbooked cabins in all classes for its Coronation sailings of the Duchess of York, Empress of Australia and Duchess of Atholl...
...Ward broke her connection with the school six years ago but it still thrives with a faculty of ten, enrollment of 125. Graduates have already gone as far as Japan and Australia to teach the proper way to sing plain song. Mother Georgia Stevens, the school's director, is also a convert. She is widely known for her music textbooks for children, hopes some day to make the boys in her school sing as well as the girls...
...Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum was increased by important collections from China, Malaysia, India, Australia, Africa, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The additions of 21,000 specimens brought the Herbarium total to 430,000 mounted sheets...
Navigating was "The Dook," wiry, chaste, non-practicing bridge engineer, whose sober tinkering with the sextant gave their position anywhere from mid-ocean to mid-Australia. Real navigator, says Author Flynn, was Providence. They all took turns at the hand pump, which had to be kept going most of the time. Figuring a couple of months for the trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner...
...Cinemactor Errol Flynn (Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade) whose private life last made news when he and his wife, Cinemactress Lili Damita, announced last December that they would go on a second honeymoon instead of getting a divorce, was known to the barroom clientele of Sydney, Australia, as a happy-go-lucky, well-set-up young Irishman from the New Guinea gold fields who had lately celebrated himself into a sanatorium, had not been on his uppers long before his abandoned claim was bought for $5,000. One morning he woke up to find that somewhere along...