Word: pilgrimate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome, Polar Pilgrim Umberto Nobile...
Frenzied cheering and moist tempestuous kisses greeted Polar Pilgrim-General Umberto Nobile & Party, last week, upon their return to Rome. Correspondent Edward Storer of the Chicago Daily News counted kisses, counted up 100 men and women who kissed General Nobile alone, stopped counting, dashed to file the hot news in a special radio despatch...
...public, when the Standard Union had carried polite letters of congratulation from the country's celebrities, Publisher Block gave a theatre party. He bought out the house for a performance of George White's "Scandals," and asked his friends to help celebrate. Among the guests were Polar Pilgrim Byrd, Aviatrix Earhart, Mauler Dempsey. Both the purchase and the party were typical of Publisher Block...
...harems were socially in disfavor, despite the fact that the Sultans always had one. Public opinion in Turkey is against the harem. Polygamy is now bootleg." Dr. Sven V. Knudsen herded 304 U.S. schoolboys aboard the Hellig Olav, bound on a goodwill tour of Scandinavia. What Pilgrim Knudsen told friends at the pier, what he may reveal to awed Scandinavians, is this: "The boy of today is the man of tomorrow." Count Leo Tolstoi, venerable, charming son of the famed novelist, came on the De Grasse with two objects in view. One is to lecture during the Tolstoi centennial...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: James Joseph Tunney sent a check for $1,000 to prospective Polar Pilgrim Richard Evelyn Byrd and a telegram: "If the American people knew what you are going to do and the difficulties attending the financing of an expedition of this magnitude, they would overwhelm you. My own check is a very humble indication of my own faith in your purpose...