Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators commonly travel abroad for pleasure & profit when Congress is not in session. Equally common is the practice of dispatching protective committees to foreign capitals to make demands, usually futile, for payment on defaulted dollar bonds. Last week Cuba witnessed a surprising combination of those two commonplaces. At the head of a protective committee two U. S. Senators marched into the Presidential Palace in Havana for no other purpose than to dun. The committee's chairman was Senator Gerald P. Nye; its counsel, Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
Returning with this good news to the famished Ruala, the party was attacked by raiders in three automobiles from yet another hostile tribe. Modern Arabian raiders travel in big cars, shoot high-powered rifles and race off like satanic hit-&-run drivers in a motorist's nightmare. Although the Ruala ambassadors killed the crews of the raiding automobiles, Faris was terribly wounded with two bullets in his breast. Carl Raswan wanted to take him to Damascus to a French surgeon, but the dying man demanded to be taken directly to Tuema. They were married the next night...
...each & every belligerent. To enforce that embargo U. S. munitioneers were to be licensed by a National Munitions Control Board, U. S. ships forbidden to carry munitions direct to belligerent ports, or to neutral ports for transshipment. At his discretion the President could also forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerent ships except at their own risk. The Senate, in effect, was issuing a "must" order to the President. That night, gravely dismayed, President Roosevelt summoned Secretary of State Hull, Assistant Secretary of State R. Walton Moore, Chairman Sam D. McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...counteract the setback to air travel caused by the deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, Arthur Brisbane hopped off from Newark on his first transcontinental flight. From Cleveland he wrote, ''The stewardess-hostess-trained nurse, who is here to take care of you, has perfect teeth, very fine yellow-grey eyes and a green dress." Said he upon landing at San Francisco, ''Flying is reading the country by the page while land travel is spelling out the letters...
Although the sketches themselves, dealing with wide-eyed impressions of London hotels, ancient transatlantic steamers, travelers' affectations and disappointments, hold up remarkably well across the years, the chief distinction of Sophomores Abroad is Author Flandrau's wryly amusing apology for having written it. When he began his literary career, certain topics, including religion, college education, youth and the possessors of great wealth, were sacred in popular magazines, while other topics, like sex, cigarets and alcohol, were absolutely taboo. A character in the thick of battle might slay Indians, but he could not smoke. When Author Flandrau gave...