Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning when Henry Linden brings his bride Manella home from India to live amongst his old British family tree, awaiting the building of his own little nest, we travel space through her affair with his brother, and the resulting complications to where his brother's original country-gal wife, loving her husband and still liking his seductress, walks into the burning barn and thus out of the picture. The following nervous breakdowns, maddened raving, etc., turn what started out a very clever snappy job into a rather morbid dissection of human passion and pain...
...Roosevelt took time out from travel and the President from work to make a cinema which will be shown, on large screens, at next week's reopening of Chicago's Century of Progress. When the First Lady (on the screen) makes an imperative gesture, spotlights will be turned on a great fountain. When the President finishes speaking all the lights of the Fair will blaze...
...announced that $100,000 would be spent cleaning up the ancient sea monster, that she would make seven round trips this year. Said he: "The American public will now be given a chance to show whether it wants this ship. All we can do is to ask Americans to travel, send their mail and ship their freight...
Nancy Lane, hire her as a substitute Princess for $10,000. Fluffing her hair and affecting an accent, the substitute prepares to travel through the U. S. as a lure to bond-buyers. Meantime a crusading publisher (Gary Grant) launches an attack upon Taronian and all other foreign loans. Princess Nancy is offered $5,000 extra to distract the publisher's attention from his front page. She succeeds so well that the two fall in love. A sleuthing reporter and a low-grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when...
...regarded as a cross-section of a great cylinder hanging from the heavens. A generation later Hecataeus wrote Periodos, the first known book of geography. Exploration as a science seems to have been set on foot in the Fifth Century by Herodotus, "Father of History," who left copious travel memoirs and gave the Atlantic Ocean its name...