Word: journey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps one third as great as that of the U. S., it is inhabited by only about 14,000 Esquimaux. The Danes, who rule the Island, forbid the entry of all other men, knowing the deadly influence of whites upon these savages. Besides, it is doubtful if anyone would journey to Greenland with a view to settling there, even if the Danes would permit it. Greenland is 4,000 to 5,000 feet high throughout, rocky, craggy, eternally covered with several hundred feet of snow. A few tiny ports and harbors on the lower coast levels are open part...
...connection with selling stock in the Black Star Line-a steamship company, formed to carry Negroes back to Africa. The company's only significant maritime achievement was to take Garvey and some of his friends aboard a chartered vessel, to the West Indies and back, on an intoxicating journey during which, in some mysterious manner, the ship nearly foundered...
...July 31 the American world fliers were to start on the last lap of their journey around the earth's crust. On that day the fog curled its haunches and lay down like a great gray beast from the Orkney Islands to Iceland. For two days, it did not stir. The fliers waited; all was ready. They had made the brief trip from Brough to Kirkwall easily, with a tall wind following them; in Kirkwall the engines had been tuned for the last time, final preparations had been made, even to giving each plane a carrier pigeon. The patrol...
Siegfried's visit was eminently successful. He is now back in the town of Bayreuth, Bavaria, famed for the first presentations of the great Wagner-cycles. There the fruits of Siegfried's U. S. journey have made possible the resumption of the Bayreuth Festivals, under the auspices of Frau Cosima Wagner, natural daughter of Abbe Liszt, divorced wife of Dr. Hans von Bulow, widow of Richard Wagner, mother of Siegfried. Eighty-six years old, she dominates everything. Though her once sharp eyes are filmed with age, her aristocratic nose appears to be more pointed than ever. She attends rehearsals...
...touch of Teutonic humor is not absent. Referring to a Royal visit to the Armies, she says: "Madame de Chartres, Madame la Duchesse and the Princess de Conti have all three returned from the expedition pregnant, so the King cannot pretend that this journey was a fruitless...