Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their male companions, however, was more traditional. Clutched tightly in the hand of Masashi Kato was a poem of guidance for the journey given him by his father. Admiral Kanji Kato, onetime Chief of the Naval Staff and naval delegate to the Washington Arms Conference. The poem...
...tragic. In another period of the world's history Albert might have reigned at peace with his subjects, won fame as an intellectual who had studied Marx, Machiavelli, Taine, kept up with modern literature to the extent of being able to enjoy Louis-Ferdinand Celine's grim Journey to the End of the Night. But the War made him a soldier whose kingdom was occupied by the enemy, and peace left him with an exhausted country, a deep distrust of his subjects, a painful inability to make or keep friends, a royal victim of the post-War melancholy...
...everywhere and there have been no revolutionary movements such as we constantly witness in the South American so-called republics. Certainly there has never been such a dark and bloody chapter as is recorded by our American Indians, with torturings, murderings and scalpings. Neither is it a month's journey to Liberia, for by sailing on the Italian Line and transferring at Gibraltar, Monrovia can be reached in 14 days. Health conditions have greatly improved and I heard and saw nothing of bubonic plague or yellow fever. For a month I lived opposite the Executive Mansion and I saw none...
...Theodore Roosevelt, his thirst for adventure unslaked by a shooting trip in Africa and another unsuccessful crack at the U. S. Presidency, was invited to address a number of learned bodies in Argentina and Brazil. He decided to organize an expedition in the cause of mammalogy and ornithology, journey up the waters of the Paraguay River, cross over to one of the tributaries of the Amazon. Accordingly he dropped in for lunch at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, arranged to take with him Ornithologist George Cherrie, Mammalogist Leo Miller and Arctic Explorer Anthony Fiala. In Brazil...
...book, but that his influence was still alive in France was shown last week, with the U. S. publication of "Robert Francis' " The Wolf at the Door (original title: La Grange aux Trois Belles). As different as could be from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night) and Andre Malraux (Man's Fate), "Robert Francis" (real name: Jean Godmé) follows his romantic bypath in the footsteps of Alain Fournier, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen. Critics will note a long gap between Author Francis and the men he trails...