Word: sojourns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States, and I know well the insular type of Britisher who writes this strangely inept and grossly unjust attack upon TIME. He is evidently of the kind that nurses a blind prejudice against everything American. I encountered a number of such people during a recent two months' sojourn in London. Logical argument, ratiocination or even statement of proven fact, count for nothing with this type of self-constituted critic. Mr. Dowse's letter is full of glaring errors and stupidities. For example, he alludes to TIME as being "typically American, quaintly ungrammatical." It is obvious that...
...sojourn at Lancelot's castle, Joyous Gard, with the dark
Young, debonair Britons of democratic leanings, such as Edward of Wales, have seldom been popular in Spain, a country where the aristocracy is, and is expected to be, punctilious. Therefore, last week, as Edward of Wales continued his sojourn with the Spanish Royal Family (TIME, May 9), Spanish journalists of the more independent stamp bestowed on him a nickname: El Principe de Jazz? the Jazz Prince. To make the nickname stick they chronicled against H.R.H. the following high social misdemeanors...
...Brazil, South Africa, South India, and Yorkshire, England. The deepest, a gold mine named "Village Deep", and situated in South Africa, in the Penne District, is 7032 feet below the level of the ground. This and many others will be visited by Professor Graton during his year of sojourn. He will visit every mine in the world that is over one mile deep...
Asked about the influence on his poetry of his sojourn in Boston (1894)-as a young vice consul, he said...