Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conquest first of the vulgar but munificent Mr. Eisman, then of the wan but even more wealthy Henry Spoffard. Dorothy Shaw, the hard-boiled bantam brunette who assists the capricious avarice of Lorelei, is neatly played by Alice White. It would have seemed not incredible had their jaunt to Paris, underwritten by Mr. Eisman to further the already astonishingly complete education of his two protegés, resulted in the complete rehabilitation of the French franc...
...startled Main Street, Rapid City, and Wall Street, Manhattan. It is not unthinkable that he even startled himself, but certainly he startled no one more than his political impresario, William Morgan Butler, Chairman of the National Republican Committee, who, just when the laconic lightning struck, was on a jotting jaunt in the Northwest, a tour of inspection to see what properties would be necessary for the Prosperities of 1928, starring Calvin Coolidge...
Events of Tour. Prime Minister Baldwin was careful to repeat the general substance of his appeal to Canadians to buy Empire goods whenever he spoke in public last week; but there were other and less stereotyped features of his tour and the simultaneous jaunt* of Edward of Wales and his brother Prince George...
...would seem unlikely if not impossible that such a journey would remain a pleasure jaunt as well as a pilgrimage for more than 600 pages. That such is the case is due to the fact that Author Lowes is a scholar and an artist, as well as a keen literary detective. All the mad metaphors, the wild and cloudy symbols of two great poems are traced back through Coleridge's labyrinthine mind to the illuminating confusion of an almost illegible scrapbook. The caverns measureless to man are charted and fingerposted. The sun rises on dark castles and the sunless...
...University tennis team, which seven players, will leave Cambridge Saturday for the Spring jaunt to the South, stopping off at Providence on the way to meet the Agawam Hunt Club on Saturday afternoon...