Word: sojourns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Producer Korda's start as a journalist left him with a respect for the profession of writing. His sojourn in Hollywood convinced him that the importance of writers to the cinema had been vastly underrated, only less foolishly than the importance of the cinema to writers. From this it was a short step to the conclusion that the payroll of London Film Productions, Ltd. was the proper place for an author like H. G. Wells. Few writers of comparable distinction have ever worked in Hollywood. Most of these have either laughed at or despised their jobs. Author Wells...
Last summer eleven of the leading universities and colleges in the U. S. (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Chicage, Stanford, California, Louisiana State, Delaware, Lafayette, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology) were invited by the French government to send representatives for a two weeks sojourn in Paris for the purpose of festering more cordial France - American relations...
...course of his sojourn on the continent, Mr. Helmes interviewed Igor Siravinski, the Russian composer, later working with him in Munich. Adrian Boult, appointee of the king as head of the British Broadcasting Company was associated with Mr. Helmes for some time in London...
...small town of Sanford where our camp was located was filled with such tongue-wagging gossips as TIME pictured who had nothing better to say about the CCC except that we most certainly would rape their entire female population under 25. After a two-months' sojourn there, we had the whole town on our side. Of course our camp contained the usual percentage of undesirables. What camp didn't? And our Commanding Officer, a jolly Captain, by knowing whom I feel a better person, weeded these characters out precisely as TIME showed, by the dishonorable discharge method...
...itinerary with formal speaking stops only at Boulder Dam and the San Diego Exposition, after which he planned to go home by way of the Panama Canal on a cruiser. To put the best face on this reversal, the President left Hyde Park last week after a 22-day sojourn, sped to Washington for a four-day session of "desk work," calculated to keep him busy until the Legionaries cleared out of his westward...