Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long run it's the plot that counts. The author in making the play probably began with the simple incident of a poor girl falling off a dock at the lakeside home of a wealthy banker, and let himself be carried from there. In the course of his journey, he managed to produce an entertaining if uneven story which involves a number of characters who are sometimes just banal types, and some times rather real people...
Lockhart made his sentimental journey a pretty stately affair. He expected trouble about a leave of absence from his boss, Lord Beaverbrook. But that Napoleonic publisher, who had read Lockhart's account of his youthful indiscretion with Amai, betrayed that hushed sentimentality that seems as much a British characteristic as muddling through. "I suppose," he wrote, "that you are going in search of the little wooden shoes." This referred to Lockhart's description of his separation from Amai, when his last glimpse had been of her little wooden shoes outside his bungalow. So, in 1935, in company with...
...predecessor, Tarzan and His Mate, Mate Maureen O'Sullivan, who once frolicked through the jungle almost nude, now wears a tunic far more modest than most bathing suits. Despite the Legion of Decency, however, Tarzan's mate is still "Miss Jane Parker" to the whites who journey into Africa to find...
...British Government regarding comments on conditions in Palestine and India. When I applied for visas, British passport officers and British Consul General, New York City, told me that special permission was required for newspapermen to visit Palestine and India. I then explained I was planning a rapid journey around the world and obviously halts would be so brief that it would be impossible for me to undertake anything but superficial surveys of situations. The passport officer immediately, upon learning the nature of my journey, cooperated to the utmost...
...like a Gaucho and usually lived like one. At 27 he married a Chilean, "Gabriella, the daughter of Don Francisco Jose de la Balmondiere," took her on a honeymoon, part of which was a trip by wagon and horseback from San Antonio, Tex. to Mexico City. In 1879 this journey took 50 days and the travelers were in constant danger of Indian attacks. Cunninghame Graham taught fencing in Mexico City, returned to the cattle business in South America, learned when his father died in 1884 that debts on the estate amounted to more than ?100,000. It took...