Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like to travel? Is College giving you that jaded, wish-I-were-back-in-pinks feeling? Is your Gov section man an ex-corporal who's unduly prejudiced and rank-conscious? This...
...Time to Travel. Chicago's seventh biggest department store, the Boston had always reeked with a quaint, Victorian mustiness. In its old-fashioned ways, it reflected its owner...
...Condemned Playground, Connolly has collected a sheaf of critical studies, parodies, travel notes and pronouncements dating from 1927 to 1943. They appeared in various London magazines, including his own Horizon. Along with his Enemies of Promise (1939) and The Unquiet Grave (1945), these writings are chiefly valuable in that they communicate and defend a love of writing as an art. They show a humane concern and alertness for the dedicated writer's lot in a radio-cinema civilization. They are full of bright glances into the writing process...
...Americans in Soviet Russia are not permitted to travel about much. One who took a long trip recently wrote to his friends in the U.S. a tale indicating that the people there are still more Russian than Soviet. Excerpts...
...More precisely, soft seats. The Soviets have substituted this two-class system of rail travel for the old Czarist three-class system of blue (luxurious), yellow (well off) and green (poor) cars. Abolition of classes in the classless society has meant that social differences are replaced by differences in material quality of the seats. The difference in cost remains...