Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consulate at Oslo with telegrams, notes and post cards conjecturing where he might be. Ultimately Picnicker Barr was arrested by Swedish frontier guards as he tried to leave Norway on foot. He had torn the buttons and identifying insignia off his uniform. "I am unable to produce my passport," said Midshipman Barr to the puzzled Swedes. "I have lived in the woods for nearly a week, eating berries." Since in such matters one State is always glad to oblige another, Scandinavian authorities kept the berry-eater from reporters, rushed him secretly to Copenhagen to rejoin the Wyoming...
...Russian but they had finally decided that he must be an American. Sure enough, it was Ernest Elmer Baker, dressed up in an old Red Army uniform. He had worked his way to Rotterdam, jumped ship with $10 in his pocket, started to walk to Russia. He had no passport because to get one he would have had to swear an oath, which his religion forbade. Time & again German and Polish authorities had clapped him into jail, but Ernest Elmer Baker always got out and kept on walking. Soviet frontier guards had finally picked him up ragged and penniless near...
...elementary language courses, cannot be counted on, as at present organized, to fill matriculation gaps, let alone furnish an introduction, for the better prepared students, to work of university grade. And concentration, for example in a science, plus four courses in economics, or vice versa, may add a dubious passport indeed to the fellowship of educated men. Although the study made by Mr. Flexner of American universities showed a lamentable majority which thought that everything was as important as everything else, it will hardly be here denied that every subject permitted for concentration is not of equal value. Nor, with...
...Central Africa, the short, stocky, reddish-haired white man who reached Manhattan on a slow transatlantic boat last week is known as The Young Python. But his passport, the Social Register, the 1914 Harvard Classbook, the tax rolls of Rockland County, N. Y. and the corporation registry of Lugene (swank Manhattan opticians) all list him as Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan. Always well off, he could afford to become an amateur ethnologist. During the past decade he concentrated on the Wanyamwesi, a long-nosed, curly-haired tribe of 4,000,000 members who inhabit 30,000 sq. mi. south of Lake Victoria...
Through travelers hand their passports to the French porter, are seldom disturbed by frontier passport control officers except for a quick glance, or occasionally at night a rap on the compartment door and the stab of a flashlight. If suspected of being a spy, the thing to do is to raise a terrific hubbub and demand that the express be held while you telegraph the nearest U. S. Legation which in the Balkans will reply faster than you would think. Usually the express will wait...