Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pieces of equipment which can compare in splendor with the two terminals is Emperor Haile Selassie's white private car. Because natives along the barren right-of-way are in the habit of prying up steel rails to beat into swords and spearheads, ordinary trains travel only about 10 m.p.h., take three full days to make the trip. Pride of the line is the Addis Ababa flyer, a weekly express that in the dry season covers the 494 miles in 36 hours. Nothing moves at night...
...projects was a bright colorful mural for this Manhattan jail. Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick is an avid psychologist, a firm believer in the use of color in the mental readjustment of female prisoners. So is Prison Superintendent Ruth Elizabeth Collins. She had already accepted a collection of travel posters to enliven the bleak, white-tiled corridors of the jail. So now the prisoners march to their individual rooms, the workshops and mess hall through halls burgeoning with such signs as VISIT SPAIN, TRAVEL IN INDIA, SEE SORRENTO. But both Commissioner MacCormick and Superintendent Collins felt that this...
...repertoire this season there are 25 ballets. 13 more than in the first winter. In the company there are 65 dancers, several of whom still travel with their fathers or mothers. In charge of them all is Colonel Vassily de Basil, a onetime Cossack officer who was so determined not to see Russian ballet die out that he organized the troupe, named it "Monte Carlo" for Princess Charlotte of Monaco who gave him his first backing. Colonel de Basil's purse was almost empty when he first arrived in the U. S. But in the last year...
Trains to New York are offering special weekend fares which are good until Tuesday. The University Travel Company has arranged a reduction on the Fall River Line boat for which a boat train leaves South Station at six o'clock. The band, 106 strong, is taking this trip...
Last week Sacha Guitry offered a volume of reminiscence and anecdote in which such childish experiences were interwoven with buoyant observations on the theatre, genius, great actors and great hams; on the perils and joys of playwrighting; on travel, success and the frightful ordeal of being hissed after a complete and overwhelming flop. Although it traces the main outlines of his career, the chief distinction of If Memory Serves is its abundance of good stories, some sentimental, some hilarious, but each swift, effective, written with a neat black-out ending...