Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the $600,000 collection brought by courier, Zog chose a diamond tiara, a bracelet, brooch and two rings. The courier and his jewel box then boarded a Rome-bound Ala Littoria (Italian) airliner for his journey to Paris. After crossing the Apennines, the liner plunged into fog, suddenly smashed into the slope of Mt. Altino near Formia. The jewel box hurtled clear, burst open and spread the gems over the ground. Startled shepherds clambered to the plane, found it a blazing wreck, with the 19 passengers and crew dead. They pocketed as many of the bright stones as they...
...Wily Zog, a onetime clan chieftain of fine old farming ancestry, has always done his business on the approval basis. He shopped for a bride in the same way. At least one European lady of title, suitable and willing to become Zog's Queen, made the arduous, chaperoned journey to Tirana, Albania's odorous, backward little capital, to seek the King's approval before he settled on the Countess Apponyi...
...created such interest in the expedition itself, apart from any fictitious coloring, that Roberts decided to arrange the original diaries and letters of the men who participated in the expedition and present them to the public in order that it might comprehend more fully the true tale of the journey...
Henry not only notes down the character of the country through which the expedition passed, but he also writes of the varied experiences, some tragic, some humorous, which he and his follows had upon the journey. He speaks of how they laughed each time a comrade would miss his footing in the Spider Lake bogs and sink to his waist, and a little later he tells how, after having carefully scraped all the dirt from them, they boiled moccasins in the hope that they would turn into some edible "oleaginous substance...
Death on the Installment Plan fills in the nightmare to his 20th year. It provoked less excitement in Paris literary circles than either his Journey, which started riots when it lost the 1932 Goncourt Prize, or his anti-Semitic "exercise," Trifles for a Massacre (TIME, May 30), which shocked even Nazis. Death on the Installment Plan was merely expurgated and called the work of a communist, an anarchist and a maniac. As the U. S. edition follows the French, most readers' imaginations are probably not strong enough to figure out what French publishers expurgated. English publishers threw out plenty...