Word: pilgrimate
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...virgin land teeming with game, and beside waters teeming with fish, how did New England's Pilgrim Fathers manage nearly to starve to death...
...months Wavell went about India, a British pilgrim in search of understanding, absorbing the atmosphere of the age-old land, trying to feel his way toward solution of its problems. India, he decided last spring, was ripe for self-government. He broached his idea for a modified Cripps Plan (TIME, June 25) to Gandhi and other leaders. Assured of their willingness to consider his scheme, the Viceroy flew to London...
...believed that the Western world could be saved only by accomplishing the spiritual salvation of the East, and after a day of forking dung and tending the cattle he would sit down at the noisy living-room table and calmly work on his translation into Chinese of The Pilgrim's Progress. Or he might hitch up the horse to the ramshackle cart and jolt off over the moors to set a farmer's broken leg. Sundays, he often preached in a neighboring church...
...birds in the municipal zoo, was twittered over by excitable St. Louis socialites who did not know her at all in the old days. In Kiel auditorium, she sang 24 songs (only one from Wagner). On Sunday she took her oldtime seat in the loft of the jampacked Pilgrim Congregational Church. Miss Traubel refused to walk down the aisle with the choir, but in excellent voice soloed, O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee...
...foot, sandy-haired Robert Fiske Bradford, 41, ninth direct descendant of old Governor William Bradford, the Mayflower Pilgrim who governed Massachusetts for 30 one-year terms with a blunderbuss in one hand and a prayerbook in the other. Young Bradford is the kind of Harvard graduate who still sculls on the Charles twice a week, and repairs to a Maine cottage every summer with his blueblood wife and four children. But he also knows when to call a tomahto a tomayto, and he speaks with some of the oratorical grandeur of John L. Lewis; with the same effective trick...