Word: journey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the end of May, 1643, Milton went forth on a journey without saying whether or why. When a month or so later he returned it was with a young wife, the daughter of Richard Powell, a strong Royalist from near Oxford. It was almost impossible that the marriage should turn out happily, not did it. Mary Powell was little over 1 years old, while Milton was 35. More over she was scarcely of a temperament which would easily suit itself to his. In a very short time she went on a visit to her parents and refused to return...
...Queen and I wish you and Lady Maud bon voyage, a successful journey, and a safe return home...
Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann did not journey to Rome to sign the treaty, lest an impression be created in France that it is a really important rapprochement. Instead Dr. Stresemann, than whom no stateman in Europe is more astute, remained at Berlin and encouraged his party news organs to pronounce the treaty "purely an arbitration pact, and exactly like those already concluded between Germany and Holland, Switzerland, Norway...
Straightway the Chicago Daily News correspondent at Riga provided him with clothing, food. Soon he will journey to meet his children who have been awaiting his release at Constantinople...
...last camp! I suddenly realized that we had come to the end of the journey and what that meant. A certain sentimental melancholy seized he, as I reflected that I should probably never see again Hamida's genial grin, or again witness Edda's barbaric feats of skill with gun and dagger; but, as the brazen sky cooled and paled. I offered a silent prayer that once more our paths should cross...