Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Traveling Hamburgers Sirs: I think that was a perfectly fine piece in TIME [June 11] about Thomas Mann, but you unfortunately picked up in it one rather annoying-to Mann-misstatement when you quoted him as saying: "I am from Hamburg, and people from Hamburg are not given to traveling." Of course Mann never said any such thing. He never came from Hamburg and, of course, Hamburgers as a matter of fact travel a great deal. The whole thing isn't, of course, of overwhelming importance...
...serious operagoers the treat next winter will be the revival of Der Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann, probably the season's curtain-raiser. Seekers after the new and curious will have to travel to Cleveland or Philadelphia. In both cities Artur Rodzinski has contracted to conduct Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk, the Soviet success by Dmitri Shostakovich, in which the heroine is heckled into murder by her unhealthy bourgeois surroundings. Metropolitan box-holders who own the shabby old theatre below Times Square made additional news last week when they announced plans to mortgage the house for $600,000 in order...
Many a Pacific Coast professor who cannot afford to travel East for the big shows of Science last week got a view of such proceedings when the American Association for the Advancement of Science met at Berkeley, Calif, for a light summer session. Important attractions for Easterners were Dean Gilbert Newton Lewis' supply of heavy water at the University of California, and Professor Ernest O. Lawrence's magnetic generator of 5,000,000 volts. Notable among the general palaver of A. A. A. S. members were the following points made by the following...
...fiddle-tune, quilt pattern,, mountain and Negro superstition, collected some Brer Rabbit tales not to be found in Joel Chandler Harris. He heard of a legendary Jim. "the stud nigger," whose boss hired out his services to a far-away plantation. When Jim learned that he would have to travel 500 miles each way, that there were 200 girls on the other plantation, he said: "Well, boss, I'll go. But it seems a mighty fur piece for just a few days' work." Carmer calls Mobile "loveliest ... gayest of American cities," thinks its charm has been less commercialized...
...employed the services of the first moppet, who had sent his small brother to negotiate the job. This week Father Murphy, youngish Roman Catholic priest, was to take ST. PETER to other Long Island towns, celebrating mass on railroad sidings for all who cared to come. Then he would travel with his Pullman chapel through New England. All this was to publicize, and raise money for, his missionary work in North Carolina. Many a Protestant minister travels about the land carrying the Gospel to rural districts by car and truck. But ST. PETER, and its mate ST. PAUL which...