Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death an indefatigable traveler, had arrived safely at Johannesburg, South Africa, after a 4,000-mile motor trip from the Mediterranean shore of the continent, through the interior, accompanied by no white escort save her cousin, a Miss Hooper. Despatches related how, camping one night near a native road gang, Mrs. Cornish heard a man-eating lion roar, then die of bullets; how, lost in wildest Ukamba, her reserve machine broke down, obliging her to sit up amidst zebras, gazelles, hyenas until midnight, when rescuers came. Mrs. Cornish traveled unarmed...
...earning profits. This year Beau Geste, Old Ironsides, Wedding March, Wings, Rough Riders and The Greatest Show on Earth, all Famous Players-Lasky productions, will tour the country as though they were plays on the legitimate stage, expecting to succeed as did The Covered Wagon, which as a "road show" earned $1,000,000 net. Because the Paramount trademark is so widely known, the corporation name may be modified to: Paramount Famous Lasky Corp...
...ROAD To THE TEMPLE-Su-san Glaspell-Stokes ($3.50). Biography of the late George Cram Cook by Mrs. Cook...
...buggy-couples wooed each other with "Connaistu le Pays?" sweet lyric by Ambroise Thomas. As old Dobbin ambled along the moon-patched road He would lean his head against her leg-of-mutton sleeve, and She would trill: "Knowest thou the Land?" So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome. People refused to go hear...
...Road To Rome?Why Hannibal left town...