Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Probably because the Vagabond has never been there. Peru has always appealed to him as a country of romance, one of those places toward which there is the feeling. "Some day I shall go there." Perhaps the root of this feeling could be traced to the Vagabond's salad days when, in company with the vast majority of his contemporaries, he was an ardent if largely unsuccessful collector of foreign postage stamps, and spent pleasant hours gazing at brightly colored. Peruvian llamas perched precariously upon impossible rocky peaks...
...Conquest of Peru," Professor Haring, Harvard...
Absent. The following members were noted as not having sent delegations: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Honduras, Peru, Spain. The following non-members were also absent: U. S., Mexico, Russia, Turkey, Egypt...
...member of the Senate of the United States, a citizen of Philadelphia, and a member of the Philadelphia Lodge of Moose for 20 years, I welcome you to Philadelphia. This is the proudest moment of my life." Miles Poindexter, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Washington, returned from Peru where he has functioned for four years as ambassador. Loquacious, onetime Senator Poindexter made remarks: "There are heavy investments of American capital in Peru. ... It is a country of immense natural riches. ... I have some ideas myself as to relief measures for the farmer, but am not prepared just...
...Lima, Peru, a man, drunk & sleepy, fumbled at the latch of an enclosure at the zoo. He wanted to go to sleep. So did a camel in the enclosure, and killed the man. No one knew the man's name. (Camels bite as well as kick...