Word: caravaneers
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...poor bookseller; Christopher Columbus helped his father to comb wool; Thomas Alva Edison started life as a newsboy; John Keats, before he became a medical student, used to help his father tend the horses at the Swan and Hoop livery stables; Mohammed was a lowly caravan conductor...
Professor C. H. Moore chose Alaska as the place in which to spend his summer vacation. He travelled over the "great open spaces" in search of game, accompanied by guides and a caravan of twelve pack mules. He bagged a good many deer, bears and lynx--bringing back the antlers of one of the deer as trophies to revive his memories of the trip...
Starting from Plymouth, Vt, proceeding through Northampton, Mass., and thence to Manhattan and over the Lincoln Highway to Los Angeles and San Francisco, a caravan of automobiles is scheduled to set out proselytizing for the Republican Party. The caravan proper is to be made of a small nucleus of cars that will cover the entire distance, but in each state a special escort, five to ten miles in length with floats, tractors, automobiles in line will help along the demonstration. Rallies will be held in the principal towns and the caravan will attempt a general jubilation and Republicanization from coast...
...these experiments, depends on the method of approach, that the loss in travelling time would be more than offset by the resultant gain in advertising, which could be achieved by having the comedian, in blackface, clashing cymbals from the roof of a purple-and-yellow moving van; as the caravan wound at an impressive pace through the countryside. Still, one can't have everything. For the present, Maine and New Hampshire will have to be content with the Ford truck and the famous Dramatic Club lighting. Perhaps another year will see the darkey, the cymbals, and the moving van playing...
...Saslawsky's program follows: Ah. Mio Cor Handel Come and Trip it Handel The Plague of Love Dr. Arne So Sweete is Shee, Old English, arr. by William Fisher The Praise of Islay, Old Scotch, arr. by Fritz Kreisler Der Wanderer Schubert Seven Ditchterliebe Schumann Die Mainachi Brahms La Caravan Chausson Claire de Lune Faure Villanelle dos petits canards Chabrier Wiegenlied Moussorgsky Hopak Moussorgsky Poem of Musse Rachmaninoff The Steppe Gretchaninoff...