Word: quest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cruising in Southern seas. Medford Kellum had served all his life as a seaman, had guided the Lauders on Florida fishing trips. In 1909 he married Elizabeth Lauder, half his age; from 1920 to 1923 he made a fortune in Miami real estate; in 1924 the couple sailed in quest of eternal happiness. Its end: the Reno (Nev.) divorce courts...
...Union Boat Club will send a group which includes five graduates and one undergraduate of the University in quest of rowing honors in the Royal Henley regatta on the Thames River, England, which will be held on July 4, 5, 6, and 7. They will sail from New York on the Majestic on June...
Charles A. Levine has learned to fly. The man who plunged the Columbia into a 17,000 foot nosedive at the most critical time in her transatlantic trip, then flew alone and unaided from Paris to London, demonstrated his ability last week at Curtiss Field in quest of a pilot's license. He landed at a mark with and without power, did figure eights and other evolutions. Dean Percy T. Walden, in charge of freshmen at Yale, appealed to the Yale faculty last week to forbid the use of airplanes to first-year students. The Yale Aeronautical Society protested...
...impressive figure as Spike Madden, the chief mate of a merchantman, does not, exactly speaking, have a girl in every port. But at least he makes strenuous efforts--with the aid of his little address book--to find one at every place his ship drops anchor. Obviously, this quest, made fruitless by the activities of another sailor who precedes him by a day or so in each port of call, does not make for unity of plot. In fact the picture is a series of episodes admirably hung together...
...quest of adventure, two blithe British women took off last week. One, Lady Mary Bailey, with a mad flourish of acrobatics, hopped across Europe on her lonesome way to Cape Town, Africa. The other, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, madcap daughter of James Lyle Mackay, Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, muffled herself almost beyond recognition and stealthily departed with one-eyed Capt. Walter G. R. Hinch-liffe on the treacherous flight across the Atlantic, Westward...