Word: globe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students from the College and one from Radcliffe were among the ten winners awarded $1000 Boston Globe World War II Memorial Fellowships for study and travel in Europe...
...scion of a wealthy U.S. family -a young Yaleman, adept at billiards, girdling the globe in search of a cure for a broken heart. She was a second-class geisha in old Kyoto. But from the moment he first spied her picture outside the Ono-Tei teahouse, George D. Morgan (son of J. P. Sr.'s sister Sarah and a distant cousin, George Hale Morgan) thought more & more of fragile, fragrant O-Yuki and less & less of a frosty Miss Meta Mackay, who had broken her engagement to him back in the States...
Although the content of the show strikes frequent depths of trite polemic, the zealousness of the 300-odd performers, many traveling over the globe for MRA, more than lends an excitement sufficient in itself to justify the expenditure of an evening and to pose the pressing question of what MRA will mean given real momentum. The idealistic drive of this movement finds rare equal at the present moment. In utter seriousness the show's participants call themselves a "task force." They feel themselves engaged in a crusade to save civilization. MRA's overriding interest rests not in its feverish adherents...
...From three months of good-will globe-trotting for Hollywood...
Producers have been eagerly batting her on the head since 1930, when she scored a personal hit in a flop called Debonair. After her first big London success, The Wind and the Rain (1933), she married a globe-trotting London Timesman, Peter Fleming, and began (as Coward overstates it) to "have children with monotonous regularity" (she has three...