Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high point of Dos Passos' journey in Spain was not in adventures, but in a quiet talk with a seasoned native. The high point of his Far Eastern trip was a 37-day caravan ride from Romadi to Damascus, on which there were occasional fights with bandits, and on which the novelist came to the conclusion that the "little black men with the camel colts are the finest people in the world...
...JOURNEY TO THE WEST-Darwin L. Teilhet-Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Picaresque, 593-page novel about a high-pressure, radical Manhattan adman, stranded in Seattle, who gets entangled with quacks, radical slickers and adventuresses, in a gory, last-scene fight saves his soul and his future father-in-law's brewery...
...food, clothing and funds from 1915 to 1919. The Chamber of Representatives stood and cheered as it was announced that the "Friend of Belgium," the title conferred by the late King Albert I, was on his way (TIME, Feb. 28). In a seven-day "sentimental journey" he toured reconstructed War areas, which he had not visited since he accompanied President Wilson in 1919. After conversing with young King Leopold III, Premier Paul Emile Janson and Foreign Minister Paul Spaak, the former President left for Lille, France, two medals the richer...
Last week, departing for England on the Queen Mary with the ashes of her dead, Fannie Ward paused on the pier to sob into a microphone: "My friends of America. . . . I'm taking my two loved ones on their last journey . . . and I say this to every mother and father in the world: Don't let your children go in the air unless you want to suffer what I am today...
Sponsored by a large number of youth organizations and under the immediate direction of the American Youth Congress, a group of students will journey to Washington this week-end to visit their congressman and urge the passage of several liberal measures...