Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under a bright Hawaiian moon, dainty Anna May Wong put out to sea one night last week in a pineapple barge. Embarked on neither a pleasure jaunt nor a cinema stunt, Actress Wong and 446 fellow passengers were en route to the U. S. For three weeks, they had been stranded in Honolulu by the shipping strike (TIME, Nov. 23). A few tourists, including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles...
...years ago Father Svensson's German provincial returned from a trip to Japan, asked the Icelander if he would not enjoy a similar jaunt. Permission was granted by the General of the Order in Rome, providing Father Svensson would write a book about his trip, obtain a reputable doctor's assurance that his health was perfect, pay his own way. Father Svensson in good shape save for a touch of rheumatism in one leg, raised money for his trip by lecturing in France, Switzerland, Germany, set out for Japan via the U. S. and Canada...
When Skipper Orsborne and his three freebooting cronies were lugged cursing to the Georgetown jail at the end of their jaunt, they were mysteriously released at once. Seamen John Hector Harris and Howard ("Ginger") Stephens presently journeyed home to England via New York. The Brothers Orsborne landed back in jail for street-fighting, were kept there on complaint of the Girl Pat's owners, Marstrand Fishing Co., who have already collected ?3,000 insurance for her loss...
Five pounds lighter from his jaunt afield to Arkansas, Texas, Indiana (TIME, June 22), Franklin Roosevelt settled down last week to the not-so-arduous business of getting rid of Congress. Canceling his trip to the Yale-Harvard boat races, also his week-end yacht cruise, he swept his signature across scores of bills, none of which seemed to cause him great concern. Nor did he bother to put positive pressure on Congress to block or save any important measure. Thus he had time to attend to several other matters...
...second half Kirkland came back strongly and evened the count when Wiley E. Mayne '38 broke through the right side of the line, outsprinted the secondary, and shook off the safety man to cross the line standing up after a 75-yard jaunt...