Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club owned a Fairchild 22, open two-seater monoplane with a cruising speed of 95 miles an hour. It is hoped that the club will be able to buy a new plane this year; possible choices are a later model Fairchild, a Fleet trainer, or a Curtiss-Wright Travel Air three-place sport model, with a 165 horsepower motor and a cruising speed of 115 miles an hour...
...publication of a new book of travel by Peter Fleming, author of that fascinating book "Brazlian Adventure," is sure to win its round of attention and applause among the circle of fireside travellers. "One's Company" is the tale of Fleming's recent seven months as journalist for the London "Times" and observer of international alignment along various sections of the Chinese-Russian front...
...story of vicarious travel in the Far East, 26-year-old Oxonian Fleming first takes us along the outside rim of Red China, along the Trans-Siberian Express, from Moscow to Manchukuo. Fleming is immediately disarming as he announces that this is "a superficial account of an unsensational journey". His Anglo-Saxon honesty compels him to add "I dare say I could have made my half-baked conclusions on the major issue of the Far East sound convincing. But it is one thing to bore your readers and another to mislead them". Such frankness is, indeed, unusual...
When Ruth Bryan Owen, gracious U. S. Minister to Denmark, expressed a desire to come home by way of Greenland, the Danish Government insisted that she travel as its guest. The Danish Premier saw her off at the boat and the Danish administrator for Greenland escorted her to his territory. Mrs. Owen suggested that perhaps a U. S. Coast Guard boat on ice patrol could take her from Greenland to the U. S. The State Department, knowing full well that the ice patrol ended in August, presented her request to the Treasury. No man to refuse his country...
...unusual first novel (Decline & Fall) which scandalized some readers, tickled many more. In 1930 came Vile Bodies, more of the same, which seemed to establish its author as one of the really funny satirists of the day. But his next, Black Mischief, sandwiched in between some disappointingly pedantic travel books, had an inferior taste, a gritty quality that set some teeth on edge. Last week readers of his latest novel were loudly disagreeing with each other about whether this new departure was or was not in a right direction. Critics had to scratch their heads to classify A Handful...