Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unto himself comfort and refuge in romantic escape. He has harkened to the men who tell "tales of little meaning, though the words are strong." As the world is rushing headlong into the dismal future, he is thrusting himself backwards upon a Victorian past. Today at 12 he will journey to the Big Fogg Lecture Room, there to hear Professor Lowes upon the 19th Century poets. For a brief hour life will float gracefully along nodding to the gods upon Olympus and sweeping its skirts above the puddles of industry and high finance...
...fiction, but there was nothing for fleshy Ambassador Walter Evans Edge to do but go over to M. Laval's office in the Ministry of the Interior and invite him informally to Washington. Last week a formal invitation followed the French Cabinet's formal assent to the journey. Ambassador Edge again drove to the Minister of the Interior, this time with six silver inkstands, gifts from himself and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to Premier Laval and colleagues "in commemoration of the friendly collaboration following President Hoover's moratorium proposal-Paris, July 6, 1931." At the same...
...December 11, for the first time in several years, the Clubs will journey to Andover, appearing at the Commander Hotel on December 18. Before this date the instrumentalists will make several appearances in the immediate vicinity...
...town, pondered abandoning it, building a new city farther back from the bay on a piney ridge. As soon as the Belize river could be cleared of bodies and debris, native inhabitants in small boats started upcountry. Through a fetid atmosphere of stranded, rotting fish, whole families made the journey to escape threatened pestilence and famine in the ruined city. Better, they thought, take a chance in the jungle...
...marry her, finds her again on Waterloo Bridge. They say good-bye in another convenient tur moil of Zeppelins and searchlights. The soldier sets off for the front. The girl, by lighting a cigaret, has herself destroyed by a bomb. Director James Whale, who made a fine picture of Journey's End, was faced by a harder job in Waterloo Bridge. The stage play by Robert Emmet Sherwood lent itself superbly to the manufacture of a third-rate cinematic tearjerker. Director Whale, perceiving that its sentimentalities would be more effective if they were subdued, disguised them carefully...