Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kelly-Roosevelt Field Museum Expedition, headed by Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over the ridge of Tonkin and Laos. After several weeks of overland travel, the four American scientists embarked on frail native canoes and floated down the waters of the Nam Hu and later the mighty Mekong...
Cecilia, attractive and intelligent young widow, was not exactly heartless but she had little affection to spare. The person she liked most was Emmeline, near-sighted but charming girl with whom she shared a London house when she was not traveling. Both Emmeline and Cecilia were attractive to men and went out a great deal, seldom together. Cecilia thought of marrying again but knew what was what, investigated matrimonial candidates with care. Emmeline. touchingly business-like in her travel agency, was blind as a newborn infant when if came to love. When Markie, clever bounder Cecilia had already seen through...
...South America's few professional B. O. M.'s (Big Outdoor Men) and dude-wranglers, my job is to make the jungle travel-easy for travel-bored, publicized, paying guests. And it is true, as several well known, faithfully-recording explorers have recently written, that the primitive jungle is as safe as modern Fifth Avenue, safer, possibly, than Broadway. In common with several of my colleagues, I think that Mr. Duguid overwrites his minor incidents for purposes of lay-appeal...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt spent his last week as a private citizen in a buzz of conferences and confusion, packing and play, travel and talk. There was little real work to be done before he took over the Presidency. His Cabinet was off his mind (see p. 12). Appointments to the sub-Cabinet and the diplomatic corps could wait until he got into the White House. He had written his Inaugural address. Most new Presidents orate an hour or more; he planned to speak for eight minutes, broadly outlining the "New Deal" and leaving its specifications to the message he would...
...expeditions often consisted of racing desert animals. The Gobi Desert has a rock floor which in many places is smooth enough for a motor car to travel at top speed. Thus Dr. Andrews found that the Mongolian wild ass attains a speed of 40 m.p.h., the wolf 36 m.p.h., the antelope 60 m.p.h. Once from his moving car he shot a running buck, completely severing a hind leg. On three legs the maimed animal kept running at 25 m.p.h. for five miles, then escaped...