Word: quest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...QUEST OF THE SUN-Alain Gerbault -Donbleday...
...wanted to go alone, bought an English decked cutter, the Firecrest (39 feet, built in 1892), and put out of Havre across the Atlantic. That was in June, 1924. In The Fight of the Firecrest Sailor Gerbault gave the log of his 101-day voyage to Manhattan. In Quest of the Sun takes up the tale from there, tells how he completed his voyage round the earth...
...actors in the scrubwomen drama whose parts range all the way from the "heavy" in quest of the "good" to the song and dance performers, of whom there are only too few, are becoming more and more involved in the plot. Can the co-authors straighten out the parts and the cues? The audience is getting ped and in case the wrong man gets shot, is there a doctor in the house...
Yale again is holder of the three weapon fencing title, as a result of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships, held last Thursday and Friday in New York City. The Harvard team was unsuccessful in quest of the foils championship, although victor in several individual matches...
...hopelessly lax disciplinarian. When his men had smoked so much tobacco they were unable to work, his reproof was mild. Said he: "What sort of satisfaction you can get from a sort of smouldering tube is more than I can understand." No land but gold was Columbus' quest: from his first voyage he brought back little, promises of much more. On his first return to Spain he was made, according to previous agreement, High Admiral of Spain, Viceroy of the Indies, given a coat of arms,* his family raised forever to noble rank...