Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that he could be an expert in solving crimes. But as with any other profession, only a small percentage of those who rate themselves qualified are fitted for criminal investigation." On Page 72, an old-fashioned advertisement urged: BE A DETECTIVE Earn big money Work home or travel Experience unnecessary
...such a versatile leader as Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Robinson can congratulate himself today on one of the most comfortable places in public life. Some two months of the year he and his wife spend in their rambling, old-fashioned frame house in Little Rock. He also finds time to travel abroad as a statesman, a taste which he acquired from attending Interparliamentary Union conferences in England and serving as delegate to the London Disarmament Conference in 1930. For fun he likes nothing better than to go fishing and shooting (he is a crack shot) with Harvey Couch in the Ozarks...
...Senators only) free snuff and free mineral water. Although not really a member of Congress, the Vice President shares most of these, has one extra one of his own?an official automobile. But for 146 years there was one fat Congressional perquisite that no Vice President ever got?travel allowance. Last week Vice President Garner got that perquisite...
...over a year he did nothing but travel for his health, collect books, give smart little dinners for political bigwigs, entertain friends in his private cocktail bar. Then at last he was ready to step out again. The Presidency of the Municipal Council is a one-year job that attracts little public attention but wields great influence with the National Government. A previous President of the Municipal Council was Socialist Pierre Godin. He and Jean Chiappe had been intimate friends for years. Their friendship did not break up when the scandals of the Stavisky case and the February riots forced...
...others, has his goal, his "light burning" often in the shadowy realms of imagination. It is because the author does not crystallize the symbolical meaning, the somewhat ethereal quality of his work, that it is made the more effective. Constantly the reader's imagination is invited to travel along roads only vaguely marked out by the author...