Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average play's journey from playwright's study to the Broadway stage is all traffic lights, stalled motors, roads closed for repairs, slowing down on hills, running out of gas. Plays, as the old gag puts it. are not written but rewritten; not sold outright but leased around on options. Even a top-ranking author like Ernest Hemingway, with a spot-news play like The Fifth Column-treating of the Spanish civil war-gets jounced around on the rocky road to Broadway. The play, Hemingway's first,* was finished three months ago. Originally Producer Jed Harris...
...Pershing. Two months ago the No. 1 U. S. War hero took to his bed suffering from heart disease and a kidney ailment, on one occasion sank so low his physicians announced he would not live the night. Sufficiently recovered was the doughty 77-year-old last week to journey to New York, pose for photographers, refuse a wheel chair to attend his only surviving offspring's marriage...
...JOURNEY TO MANAOS-Earl P. Hanson -Reynal & Hitchcock...
...official title of the one-man expedition it tells about-the Carnegie Institution's Expedition for Study of the Earth's Magnetic Behavior. A mixture of guidebook, adventure story, anthropological study, social & political commentary, covering a 2,000-mile trip through the jungles of Venezuela and Brazil, Journey to Manaos tells next to nothing about terrestrial magnetism. Author Hanson dutifully did the job he went to do, but he records more magnetic attractions above ground than underneath...
...bustling American and European salesmen who made the inaugural trip were delighted that they had been spared the hitherto unavoidable, tedious, 48-hour journey from Bagdad, Iraq to Teheran over Iraq's slow railroads and Iran's slower, often impassable dirt mountain roads. Better still, they had missed having to put up for a night in one of Iran's insect-ridden rest houses. What the plane's arrival meant to Middle Eastern diplomats, however, was that the German-controlled Lufthansa had just won a significant battle with British Imperial Airways over flying concessions...