Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florence: A young Monk, holding gown above his knees, running to catch a crowded trolley car . . . A well-dressed woman from New York, puffing a cigarette in a corner of her mouth, pin a red rose on a shabby beggar who was blind . . . . A thousand black birds break their journey through the sky and stop at a marble ruin lit with moonlight . . . . Mussolini, the Pope and George Santayana...
...Though Danish motor roads are excellent, and railroads (50% Government-owned, the rest with the State as majority stockholder) are efficient, traveling in Denmark means a lot of ferrying. The new bridge, on the direct line between Copenhagen and London, cuts down by nearly 50% the time of the journey from Copenhagen to Esbjerg, Denmark's only important port in the North Sea. home of a large fleet of fishing vessels and westbound steamship lines. Irrepressibly ambitious about bridges, Denmark plans to open this summer the Storstrom bridge, even longer than that across the Little Belt, which will link...
...Mississippi they drove to Jefferson Davis' onetime estate (now a home for Confederate veterans) and on to Gulfport, home of Senator Harrison. There the President was joined by his son Elliott and Governor Richard Webster Leche (pronounced lesh) of Louisiana and entrained, beginning the significant part of his journey...
...same compartment with a Sicilian family consisting of the father with a long mustache, the mother holding a baby, and a daughter looking like a brunette version of Greta Garbo and eating salami. My time was spent between looking for Mt. Etna and smelling the salami. Before the journey was over, however, I was eating salami, holding the baby, and listening to an Italian, French, handlanguage version of the last eruption of Mt. Etna...
...revenge the Varsity baseball team will journey to Nickerson Field to tackle Boston University in its own lair today at 4 o'clock...