Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ankara, the raw capital built on a rocky hillside by Dictator Kemal after he smashed the Sultanate, perspiring Turks worked furiously to lay a brand new street to the Persian Embassy so that the King of Kings would not be too severely jounced. The last stages of his journey sped him up the Black Sea on a spruce Turkish battle cruiser to Istanbul, then by train to the Turkish capital. Near Easterners quivered with excitement at palavers scheduled for this week, as the two swarthy strong men gripped hands in Ankara, the King of Kings gorgeous in a Persian uniform...
...cockpit, and installed a water cooler between them. When President Roosevelt boards the Houston at the end of this month the gig will be swinging from the cruiser's davits. ready as a fishing boat whenever the President feels inclined to cast a line overboard on his holiday journey to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Pacific Coast, Hawaii...
Hollywood has scaled Olympus, the impossible has been attained--gentlemen, for the first time in cinema history a child actor has appeared who is wholly natural, who does not simper, who is not affected, who is genuinely likeable, and who is really amusing. Journey to the Met this week, if examinations possibly permit, if only to revive a rapidly vanishing belief in miracles...
During the Conference and throughout a journey of two weeks or more through Japan and manchukuo, the Association will pay all the expenses of a group of American delegates, at least one of whom is to be chosen from Harvard. Princeton has already supplied four students to the delegation and others are being selected from colleges throughout the country. Harvard men interested should apply to Edward S. Amazeen, 2GB, graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House. Expenses will Coast at $195 round trip steamer fare to Yokohama...
...straightforward character delineation, Destouches succeeds in leaving an unforgettable impression of his hero. There is no hesitancy. Pride and fear of violating moral standards belonging to others have no place in the "Journey." The other characters do not take shape with anything near the same success. Robinson, a fellow inmate of the war hospital who appears intermittently throughout the book seems simply a variation of Bardamn himself, one whose moral sense and self-respect have mired deeper and deeper in futility, filth, and fear. The others leave little personality impression behind them. The translation by Mr. Marks is excellent...