Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encores for a good half hour, until the hall's lights were dimmed and the curtains finally closed. Most singers are all too eager to capitalize on a sure-fire success. To get a glimpse of Marian Anderson after last week's concert, it was necessary to travel to Philadelphia, to a respectable eight-room flat in the Negro section. There the season's outstanding new singer sat with her bad foot propped up, wrapped in a clumsy, grey woolen sock. That Philadelphia neighborhood represented home to Marian Anderson. When she was a child her father conducted...
...Author, like many a Dutchman, was born in Java, got used to travel at an early age. At 14 he was sent to school in Paris, tried to learn painting after hours. Deciding that there were enough painters, and that a writer's tools were less expensive, he took to wandering around the Mediterranean countries, "learning to drink wine and to tighten my belt from time to time." Other places seen: the Austro-Italian front (as a war-artist), South America (where he was lost in the Gran Chaco). At 36 he is married, settled at The Hague...
...Parnassus by the academic path. It was while he was teaching English at the University of Chicago that he met "Harriet," who kept alive the torch of culture by all-night literary conversaziones around a lakeshore bonfire. When his drudged-out textbook's success set him free to travel and write for himself, Moody and Harriet kept their friendship going by mail. His letters were intimate but literary, extremely publishable. They are not love-letters so much as polished exhortations; his emotions lie neatly pressed between these pages. Not Harriet's image but a night sky of frosty...
Opportunities for inexpensive summer travel in Europe through the Experiment in International Living will be outlined by Donald B. Watt, former personnel director at Syracuse University, in an illustrated lecture at Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock. All Harvard and Radcliffe students are invited to attend...
Each summer several co-educational groups of American students travel to European countries, live in families for three weeks, and enjoy a month of bicycling, camping, and mountain climbing in the company of European young men and women of their won age. One of the main attractions for groups travelling in Germany and Austria is a five-day flatboat trip on the Danube from Line to Vienna...