Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those two pronouncements U.S. airlines could have hugged Mother Dirlam and choked Mother Ward, for the greatest obstacle in the development of air travel is the public's fear of flight. To counteract the fear propaganda of Fannie Ward and other parents who do their broadcasting less publicly, United Air Lines last week had a new project afoot. It was a child's book called Air Babies, mothered by Elvy Kalep, a pretty Estonian aviatrix who once aspired to fly the Atlantic, colorfully. illustrating the adventures of two cheerful little winged sprites, Speedy and his sister Happy-Wings...
...tapestries and an executive head of a group of furniture stores in New York and Pittsburgh. If Mr. Spear wanted to, he could produce one of the most remarkable jingle-jangles of sound ever heard: he could set all his 885 bells to ringing simultaneously. During years of travel Mr. Spear has collected bells from big to tiny, many of them old and odd, most of them ringable-the largest collection in the world. Last week proud Mr. Spear moved them all into his 34th Street Manhattan stores for their first public exhibition. At week...
Contemporary historical novels like Anthony Adverse carry a lot of philosophical baggage. Compared with them the historical novels of Cecil Scott Forester travel light. Last year Author Forester caught the attention of a few adventure-minded readers with his fast-moving, lightly-laden Beat to Quarters. That book revolved around a romantic hero, Captain Horatio Hornblower, a shy, dignified, portly British sea dog of Napoleonic times, master of H.M.S. Lydia, who pitted his 36-gun frigate against ships twice as strong. Last fortnight, when he continued Captain Hornblower's story in Ship of the Line, it seemed likely that...
...were not automatically naturalized when their husbands were; 4) veterans who thought War service made them citizens. But, innocent or not, Cook County's 150,000 assistant Americans in thus being deprived of their legal status, were liable to lose other prerogatives besides their votes, including passports for travel abroad, old-age, blind and mothers' pensions, WPA jobs...
Cambridge's first game is on Wednesday, when they meet Yale in the Bowl at New Haven. On Friday they will travel by bus to Boston, points of interest being included on the route. While in Boston they will stay at the Harvard Club on Commonwealth Avenue. The game against Harvard will take place on Saturday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock in the Stadium...