Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tudor Gardiner, Garfield Horn and Victor Vaughan will comprise the negative team meeting Princeton in the Upper Common Room of the Union at 7:15 o'clock. An affirmative team of Paul W. Cherington, Robin Scully, and Phil C. Neal will journey to New Haven to meet Yale. The third debate of the evening, at Princeton, will be between Princeton and Yale...
...Queen Elizabeth will ride, rolled along behind eight horses with its Household Cavalry escort, policemen and soldiers snapped their heels to attention. Outside the Abbey, the procession halted while an imaginary Coronation service unwound itself, and officials with furrowed brows peered at stopwatches. On the cavalcade's return journey any wisps of sleep that still hovered over the 200,000 sightseers were swept away by the rousing brass of massed bands. Because the procession took 30 minutes longer than the schedule allows there was many an anxious head-to-head in the Duke of Norfolk's Buckingham Gate...
Sofia is even more of a busybody than Pietro. She not only tries to patch up her brother's marriage by arguing with Maria Luisa but makes a missionary journey to the mistress, Andreina. Andreina is beautiful but far from dumb. When she learns that Matteo's money is not his but his wife's, and that consequently there is no chance of being kept by him any longer and no point in marrying him if he got a divorce, she begins to lay her complicated plans for revenge. First she lures Pietro away from his fianc...
...glory of Genova is in the past when with Venice she was the leading port and trading city. Now for the tourist she stands as a convenient breaking place in the journey to Florence and southern Italy. Yet is it not for the past that most of us come to Europe at all? The chief contemporary contribution which will interest the tourist a thousand years hence will be found principally in America...
...direct as action. Ralph Bates's second novel never mentions Spain's civil war or the state of Europe. It is the tale of how six men found their way down through society to a Greek sponge-divers' island, went the rest of their downward journey together. Freeth was a South of England boy who had run away from home and wandered in some shady places before he murdered a French prostitute in her Marseille hotel. Skinner was a hard-bitten skipper who had wrecked one too many ships for his crooked employers. Legge was a burned...