Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neighbor, Ecuador. Heavily subsidized by the local Government and Germany, Sedta is controlled by Deutsche Lufthansa through equipment credits, other loans. It is no moneymaker. But it makes up in good will what it lacks in revenue. Nearly 50% of its passengers (many of whom are Government officials) reportedly travel free, barely 10% pay the full fare...
Collier's tales are much like those of Lord Dunsany (Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens). But his taste is less for the dewy groves of dancing pixies than for the chasms and black alleyways where fiends hang out. Nor is this the madness of James Thurber (The Owl in the Attic, Fables for Our Time), smelling of neurosis, manic depression and similar 20th-Century ills. Collier offers a fuller-blooded evil often conjured up with appropriate 17th-Century English suggesting the grimmer scenes of King Lear. From that play he plucked titles for two former books: Defy...
...Donkey Inside is the book. Technically a travel book, it is as far superior to the type as Sterne's Sentimental Journey. It uses the sights & scenes of Ecuador as a medium for the exercises of a quick eye and an original mind. Bemelmans is the kind of person to whom strange, delightful things always happen...
...dean of U. S. physiologists, Chicago's Anton Julius Carlson, declared that the problem of alcoholism "is too complex for any one of our biological and medical disciplines. The sociologist should be present at the start, and I imagine we will not travel very far before we ask for the aid of the genetecist and the educator. [It] . . . is going to be a labor of Hercules...
Presidential Adviser Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran used to work until 4 a.m., used to travel far & wide on the moment's spur. Grounded in Washington while his pretty wife Peggy was momentarily expecting their firstborn, he mourned: "This domesticity ruins the irregularity of my life...