Word: questing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quest for Certainty...
Here's our favorite. We copied it years ago from The Quest for Certainty...
...center John Page will replace John Richardson, benched by injuries. Page is an aggressive, fighting player, who does best backing up the line. Sparkplug of last year's Milton team, he may prove a partial solution to Stahley's quest for a team leader, although he is handicapped by his lightness. Anyway, he should give Richardson a good run for his money when he returns...
Died. Leonard Merrick, 75, novelists' novelist, whose whimsically unhappy stories (When Love Flies Out o' the Window, Cynthia, Conrad in Quest of His Youth) were cold-shouldered by his British reading public, tolerated in the U. S.; in London. He usually wrote about people of his own stamp: sensitive, unsuccessful, unembittered, garret-inhabiting. In 1918, after he had published twelve novels, a dozen top-flight authors-including Barrie, Wells, Chesterton, Howells, Pinero, Hewlett-published an appreciative edition of his work, called public attention...
Over one 15,000-foot pass after another climbed Author Kaulback as spring melted the ice barriers in the rocky gorges. What finally defeated his quest for the source of the Salween was whiskers. Colleague John Hanbury-Tracy had grown a beard. A Tibetan official who had been in India and knew that Britons shave thought he was a Russian spy, and the expedition was held up until winter made the trip impossible. Though he failed to find the source of the Salween, Explorer Kaulback was comforted by the thought that "it still remains to be found by someone...