Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orville Wright for his automatic stabilizer, Designer Douglas graduated, began to build his first real airplane at the plant of Aircrafter Glenn L. Martin. This week, 44-year-old Designer Douglas, now head of the world's greatest airplane factory, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., will journey to the White House to receive from President Roosevelt the 21st Collier Trophy, now the top U. S. air honor, awarded to him for his famed DC-2-"the outstanding twin-engined transport...
...often does Zenith's president journey inland. Since 1929 he has lived winter & summer on his 185-ft. yacht Mizpah. In winter he ties up in the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Tall, black-browed, weathered, he likes to cruise to Ontario's Georgian Bay with Radioman Powel Crosley Jr., agreeing beforehand not to mention radio. He likes checked suits and stiff collars, cocktails made with pistachio ice cream and gin. But what Eugene Francis McDonald likes most of all is to put on a diving helmet and sit on the floor of Georgian Bay watching...
...Presbyterian commissioners (delegates) made ready to journey last week to Syracuse, N. Y. for the 148th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., in Philadelphia a famed and zealous Fundamentalist geared for action. Dr. John Gresham Machen professes to believe he is persecuted by a "Modernist Machine" in power in the church. In his Fundamentalist Presbyterian, Guardian last fortnight Fundamentalist Machen warned his disciples not to be deceived at the General Assembly by the way the Machine would "conceal the real issues" by limitation of debate, parliamentary bullying from the moderator's chair, celebrating...
...service to the composer he might interpret, that his records would help young conductors with their phrasing and their tempi. Result was the release last week of a Toscanini Wagner album,* which included the Preludes to the first and third acts of Lohengrin; Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung; the tender Siegfried Idyll, composed by Wagner as a Christmas serenade for his wife Cosima the year after their son Siegfried was born. The Toscanini performances are peerless, the recordings faithful. First week sales were unparalleled, according to record dealers, since the days...
...fired. To Juanita work is simply the means of making enough money to move on. She began her travels at 16, and gradually got the ambitious notion of going round the world. In 1927 she had enough money saved to start. This diary of her eight-year journey through 22 countries was arranged (but not corrected) by the daughter of one of her employers-by-the-way. The title was not Juanita's invention, though it echoes her sentiments. She herself has a more personal word for a world that is great, wide, beautiful. Her word is "gelouries...