Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Annapolis on May 30. On June 6, the great cruise begins, down the Atlantic Coast and through the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Seattle, then all the way back. Fifty-two days at sea, 39 days in port, 12,060 miles of travel will make up the itinerary...
...shadow will travel at the rate of 60 miles an hour...
...projected courting tour of Europe in search of a bride. Courting has a special sense for him; it means a round of the courts to court some eligible young princess. The young Tsar, nearly 31 years of age, son of long-nosed Ferdinand (who abdicated in 1918) intends to travel first to Belgrade, capital of Yugo-Slavia, where there are no princesses, but where he may meet Rumanian Queen Marie's youngest progeny -Princess Ileana who, however, is not yet 16 years old. Thence he will go to Rome where Princesses Mafalda, Giovanna and Maria grace their royal father...
...beards, dancing girls and the annoyance of the Lord thereat are profusely painted in. They illustrate the villain's attempt to justify to the wife her proposed seduction by himself. Very properly the bewildered girl burst into tears and went downstairs to her husband. The picture proves that travel talks on sin are unwise at critically unmoral moments...
Using his legs for locomotion, the fleetest man in the world can make the earth flash by beneath him at the rate of some 10½ yd. per sec. for a few seconds. Using his brain and an aeroplane, he has so far learned to travel about 13 times as fast-137 yd. per sec. for many minutes...