Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Double-Header. Delayed two hours by the crush of holiday travel, pack-jammed with mail & passengers, including onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker. New York Central's fast Midnight Express (Columbus-Cleveland) was running with double-header locomotives near Delaware, Ohio when it shot out of a cut-off junction, just in time to catch the Eastern Mail on the main line. It took a wrecking crew with blow torches ten hours to get Engineer F. E. Springer's body out of the overturned second locomotive of the Mid night Express...
...vague possibility that the Harvard boxing team might fly rather than travel by train to Charlottesville, Va., to face the Cavaliers of the University of Virginia on January 12, was apparent at the offices of the H.A.A. yesterday, when coaches and athletic officials consulted time tables and rates for a plane trip to the southern town...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Large, massive, oblong skull, flesh pretty well messed up with scars, folds and wrinkles but amazingly firm in outline. Head like a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable. Cosmopolitan, intact but hard-used. Color warm neutral with dingy hair, thick and ill-groomed at rear. Heavy jowl, thrust out and up like an iguana. Mouth curved judicially, lower lip protrudes. Eyes slanting with complicated puckers beneath, giving air of speculation rather than dissipation. Form lumbering, sits carelessly in comfort with wrinkled shoulders. Bright, direct look, the frank, clear gaze of craft. Clever...
Geneseo is a pretty little town in the lush Genesee Valley of western New York. Around it lie the broad acres of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., onetime (1925-27) U. S. Senator and now a Representative whose family in the old days could travel all the way to Rochester, 30 mi. north, without setting foot off its own land. Depression has dealt lightly with Geneseo's 2,260 inhabitants, who work on farms or in the cannery & jam factory, or teach in the State Normal School, and deposit their money in the Wadsworth bank. Thriving seat of Livingston County...
...Yard. He was born on March 19, 1842, in Boston, and after attending Phillips Exeter Academy for two years, entered Harvard in 1860. After his graduation in 1864, he went to the Salem High School as under-master, but was forced to stop teaching after two years and travel for his health...