Word: journey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...finishing touches on his Cleveland address. Next day at 7 a. m. the President was breakfasting aboard his Baltimore & Ohio special as it slid out of the Washington yards. At Martinsburg, W. Va. began a series of rear platform appearances that were to continue throughout the 13-hour journey. At Cumberland, Md. where are tariff-protected celanese mills. President Hoover reminded a station crowd that the first measure from the First Congress signed by President Washington was a protective tariff. Dusk had fallen when the train reached Akron where a short tariff-&-rubber speech was made...
...legendary Kings, wanted to buy the Books but refused to pay the great sum the Sibyl demanded. She destroyed six of the sacred nine. When he paid the original price for the remaining three and took them to Rome, Romans no longer had to make a long journey to learn what they wanted to do. The Cumaean Sibyl and her grotto lapsed into a legend—until last week...
Fifteen men have been selected by the Harvard Debating Council in preliminary tryouts for debates with Yale and Brown on November 3 and 4. The question for each debate is: "Resolved, That Hoover Should Be Reelected." Harvard's negative team will journey to New Haven on November 3 and to Providence the day after. Yale's negative team comes to Cambridge on November 3 to match their forensic skill against that of the crimson debaters...
...this journey I have received a multitude of reports as to widespread personal misrepresentations. I shall now say the only harsh word I have uttered in public office. When you are told that the President has sat in the White House without troubling to know your burdens, without heartaches over your miseries, without using every ounce of strength and straining his every nerve to protect and help, without putting aside personal ambition and humbling his pride of opinion, then I say to you such statements are deliberate, intolerable falsehoods.?President Hoover at Fort Wayne...
That first Metropolitan performance made people want to know all about unknown Lily Pons. Her father was an automobile pioneer who drove a Sizaire-Naudin car from Paris to Pekin, got lost in the Urals, starved in Tibet and had to be towed the latter part of his journey. Lily grew up in Paris where her mother did millinery. She studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire but when, during the War, she attempted to play Bach and Debussy for soldiers she usually ended by singing...