Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seldom meet, when out to walk, Either the Orchid or the Auk. The awkward Auk is only known To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone, While Orchids can be found in legions, Within the equatorial regions. So if by chance you travel on The Lena or the Amazon, Be certain of the temperature Or you will make mistakes I'm sure...
Frank Masterson, 28, an ambitious Chicagoan who entered his father's contracting firm few years ago, soon tired of that job, wanted a business of his own. In December a Marshall Field & Co. advertisement of traveling bags piqued his curiosity; he found that plenty of people came to look, few to buy. Luggage, he decided, was too expensive to sell readily. He wondered why no one had thought of renting it. Visiting railroad and airline offices, steamship and travel bureaus, he planted an idea: if vacationists could skimp on luggage, perhaps they would splurge on trips. In partnership with...
...large Georgia plantation, handsome, dilettante Pierce Butler (no kin to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler). Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath him. When Fanny published her U. S. travel impressions, which made a scandalous success, her in-laws' opinion was echoed even...
...first novel, The Man Within (1929), a psychological study of a cowardly smuggler, bore strong resemblances to Treasure Island. His psychological-action novels have continued to show a Stevenson influence. But though he got off to a flying start with his Stevenson inheritance, he has never been able to travel...
...Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske, 3d, Scholarship for a year of study at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and also the Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske, 3d, Fund for Travel or Study in France, have been awarded to Edwin C. Hoyt of Brentwood, Long Island, N. Y., who will graduate cum laude in History...