Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing in my head, and there used to be more than I could write." Unwilling to think that he had "grown too old for poetry," he decided to force himself to write, then get unfriendly advice on what he had written. Verses in hand, he "went a considerable journey partly to get the advice of a poet not of my school who would, as he did some years ago, say what he thought. I asked him to dine, tried to get his attention." But all the other poet would talk about was politics ("He said apropos of nothing 'Arthur...
...rolled about this New Hampshire valley like the broken rim of a cup. The Vagabond, brushing wearily through the weeds of the fiat fields paused to wipe the perspiration from his warm face. His shabby clothes, his eyes rather puffed and watery, betokened the dusty plodding of a long journey. And indeed he had been trudging since dawn when he left Dunster sitting beside the river, it seemed, like a contented crimson...
...Roger Strauses (American Smelting), or drive through Brooklyn's back streets to find some dinky restaurant where the steaks are thick and juicy. Their social calendar includes two invariable annual events. One is the Once-a-Year Poker & Pretzel Club, for which Mr. Sulzberger & friends were obliged to journey to Washington this year because Secretary Morgenthau was too busy to come to Manhattan. The other is the New Year's Eve party in the Sulzbergers' rich mansion in East Eightieth Street near Central Park. From 2 a. m. on, guests drift in from earlier parties, gravitate...
...Freshman racquetmen will also journey to Yale tomorrow for the last match of the season...
Professor Kirsopp Lake, who is leading an expedition excavating the ancient Egyptian temple Hathor, was seriously injured when he was bumped by a camel during a caravan journey to Serabit it was learned at Harvard yesterday...