Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince, on the other, is schooled in rigor. Forced to travel about the world, enduring all sorts of discomforts in the interests of Empire, David Windsor, Prince of Wales, was not overcome by the fact that the train which was to have taken him last week from Chile to Buenos Aires stuck in a snowdrift on the Andes Mountains and had to turn back to Los Andes. Nor was he more than slightly startled when, as he strolled the streets of that town, bored by the oppressive company of his persona] detective, he saw a rumdum reel...
...maneuvers. Suddenly it banked, began to plunge down. An officer on Mitchell Field watched it descend. This machine, a 1,400 horsepower Curtiss racer, with a wingspan of only 22 feet, had been sent up for its first official speed test. Its manufacturers believed that it could travel 255 miles an hour. In it Lieut. Alford J. Williams had on an ancient shirt, greased with the smuts of innumerable flights ? a good luck shirt. If he had good luck in it this time, he would fly that plane, or its duplicate, in the International Races at Baltimore next month...
...piece of sculpture; the style of a racing thoroughbred; the bright, scrupulous cruelty of an accomplished boxer. It has been proved a thousand times that neither this speed nor the grace that is its afterglow has much to do with efficiency-that the clumsy nag can often travel fastest, the hardest hitter win-but men persist in betting on good form. This was illustrated one damp evening last spring in a Manhattan boxing ring (TIME, June...
...Issues. Not in years has Mayor Hylan missed an opportunity to tell his constituents and all visitors to New York, including the Queen of the Belgians and the International Police Conference, that he has preserved the five cent fare in New York travel, thus keeping from the Wall Street barons upwards of $3,000,000,000,000 excess profits. This issue was captured by Senator Walker, who pointed out that the Mayor of New York is powerless either to raise or lower the fare...
...Author. Gertrude Horn, great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, was born in San Francisco. She married and was widowed young ("one of the most important incidents of my school life"). She wrote travel books with the aid of a geography and claims the introduction to fiction of San Francisco's social life. It is her pride and habit to be "up" on things, especially international politics and psychology, which she discusses in a manner highly stimulating to the notables that throng her Manhattan apartment-salon. At the moment she is traveling in England where she has long been regarded...