Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keys will leave for India Dec.20 to make arrangements for the expedition. The entire group will assemble at Srinagar, in the vale of Cashmir, April 15 and begin the 330-mile caravan journey on the famous Turkestan-Cashmir route, the highest road in the world. Twenty-five native drivers will accompany the 100 horses and 20 yaks which will carry six tons of food and equipment to the base camp site...
...chill morning last week the ranking Democrats of Pennsylvania halted election celebrations to journey to a slag-piled hill near the town of McAdoo. There Governor-elect George H. Earle stood beside a freshly-turned grave. There, too, stood Senator-elect Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian...
...getting to be the regular thing for candidates to journey to Washington, and in company with prominent politicians to visit the various departments, secure pledges for the expenditure of millions of dollars in their district, or state, or city and to then tell the voters that this money was furnished by the Administration, and that they are in duty bound to support the hand that feeds them. . . . What is this but the buying of votes? It is a bold and insolent attempt to corrupt the electorate...
Born 50 years ago in Dublin, Sean O'Casey did not learn to read until he was 12. He earned his bread selling news papers, grew up to be a bricklayer's helper, a stonebreaker and dock hand. Like R. C. Sherriff (Journey's End), he became interested in the theatre through a group of amateurs. "Everyone was getting tired of the Abbey plays," says he. "so I decided to write one for them." The amateurs as well as the Abbey turned the play down, but William Butler Yeats wrote an en couraging letter. O'Casey...
...pledge . . Every man will be expected to do his duty. I will do mine . . ." so spake His Grace, Charles Duke of Burgundy, early on the morning of the Battle of Paris some five hundred years age. And so the Vagabond, at ten o'clock this morning will journey to Sever $3 to hear Mr. Kelsey enliven the routine of French A as he presents delightful hits from French history...