Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to know the Morrows when he had a church in Mexico City, and Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. Retired. It was on Admiral Burrage's Memphis that Col. Lindbergh triumphantly rode home from France after his 1927 flight. The three Norfolkers made a secret journey to Hopewell and it was then that their identity was discovered by the prying Press. Back in Norfolk. Preacher Dobson-Peacock bemoaned the fact that the story had leaked out, feared that it might impede the recovery of the child...
Happy Landing has to do with a young man, not unlike Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who sets out on a transpacific flight. Just to make it more difficult, the playwrights have the journey begin at Old Orchard, Me. That such a feat could be accomplished without refueling is explained by having the heroine (Margaret Sullavan). mention "the new carburetor" with which the ship is equipped. When the youth gets back home he is, of course, a national hero. He lunches with the President, is made a colonel in the reserve flying corps and runs into a rich and comely lion-hunter...
...deeply the sickness of that century which seemed like a long anticlimax to the Napoleonic wars. A later generation, drawing a similar bitterness from a world in greater ruin, can find its mood already mirrored in the pages of his confessions and in his melancholy poems. The Vagabond will journey to Emerson 211 this morning and listen to a more critical estimate of Alfred de Musset from Professor Morize...
About the play proper there is not much to be said. It is very British in tone, and deals with the complications that follow when a country vicar's daughter reverts to Victorian crinolines in order to win a journey to London, and, ultimately, a husband, together with her twin sister's less devious route to the same goals. The plot is rather more involved than is usual on the contemporary stage. It abounds in "character" parts which require considerable adroitness from the actors, and more experience, perhaps, than undergraduates can supply. There was little wit but much humor...
...stayed at Mrs. Hugget's lodging-house at Bognor on the sea. Though Mrs. Hugget's place, since the death of her husband, showed more shabbiness than gentility, the Stevenses were faithful once again. With meticulous detail Author Sherriff recounts their departure from London, the thrilling railway journey, their stay in Bognor. Nothing happens except that for two weeks they all breathe free. Their mutual affection, having survived the cooping of their poor city life, turns outward to the world at large. Mr. Stevens meets old cronies at the pub; Dick has an inspiration to become an architect...