Word: caravaneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their names were neatly stamped. The boxes were boosted into a moving van which rumbled out of town that evening. In the 6 a. m. quiet of Saturday morning the Coryell staff reassembled with their families, piled into 13 automobiles festooned with banners and wound off in a honking caravan toward Colorado Springs, 600 mi. away. A cameraman hired by L. L. Coryell & Son stood beside the road to film the spectacle -a whole business going away for the summer...
Burton's discovery of Lake Tanganyika in 1858 was his last big undertaking, met with incredible difficulties from the start. He was underfinanced, caravan mutinies and desertions were constant. On the last stages he was half-blinded and paralyzed by fever. Quarrels with his lieutenant John Hanning Speke, who went on alone to discover Victoria Nyanza, echoed for 20 years after. To escape them, Burton went to Salt Lake City to have a look at the Mormons. Brigham Young's harem reminded him of a "large English hunting stable" and after a brief taste of the prevailing moral...
Main thing Domini and Boris have in common, conveniently for Producer Selznick's cameras, is a wish to see the desert. They do it in a caravan whose manager is a bubbling young Algerian named Batouch (Joseph Schildkraut). Tripping about the North Sahara they enjoy life to the full until one night a French Army officer, lost with his troop, happens on their camp. When Batouch brings in a bottle of the Trappist liqueur Lagarnine, the officer remembers where he has met Boris before. Without so much as saying, "It's a small world after all," he goes...
After the Common address, which will be broadcast, the presidential caravan swings across the river, through Central and Harvard Squares and on out Mount Auburn Street to Worcester. Elaborate police precautions have been taken to guard both the Common during the talk, and the entire route to be followed by the President...
...which had overtaken a fellow Oblate, Rev. Otto Fuhrmann with whom he had been inseparable in the flying corps, in whose company he had entered the priesthood. Father Fuhrmann had died of a tropical disease in Ovamboland, South-West Africa after vainly at tempting to reach a hospital by caravan through the jungle. At once Father Schulte volunteered to take his comrade's place. Privately he decided Father Fuhrmann's life could have been saved had an airplane been available to transport him over, instead of through the jungle. Father Schulte resolved to do something about...