Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week for a 15-stage flight via the Argentine, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico City, Laredo, New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington, to Manhattan, U. S. Army flyers two years ago included most of this route, on their goodwill voyage. So did the Italian flyer de Pinedo. But not yet has a South American accomplished...
...Come to South Africa!" the Canadian Pacific Line urges. "See Cape Town, the diamond mines at Johannesburg, Kaffir villages, wild animals in their haunts...
...party of 30 Britons and U.S. citizens came to South Africa last week on the new and luxurious Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Atholl. They saw Cape Town, traveled inland to the diamond mines, and leaving the railroad, embarked in motor busses for the Kruger National Park game preserve to see the wild animals...
Came a sudden cloudburst. Roads were washed out. Impossible to move. Black night descended. Fitfully in their busses the travelers dozed. Came, out of South Africa, a noise like distant thunder, then the full-chested, long-drawn reverberant roar of lions in the bush, a sound no lion makes in captivity...
...white hedonist basking deliciously among South Sea Islanders and a sturdy Cape Codder poising his malicious harpoon over boiling seas, join incongruously in the popular impression of Herman Melville. As a matter of fact, he was born of eminently conforming New Englanders and but for a few glorious seagoing years, lived drably enough as an indifferent farmer, writing feverishly in the slack winter season. Failing as farmer, failing too as popular writer, he aspired to a post at some foreign consulate, but had to content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most...