Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time was when the lure of travel and of the sea furnished an irresistible call to the young New Englander. The great development of industry has changed all this, and with the passing of the old clipper ship has gone a large part of the romantic atmosphere that attached itself to the professional sailor.--in this country at least. The Briton however, must perforce be a mariner. The nation lives by commerce, and hence the sea is a popular calling. It has been left to an Englishman to show that in steam ships there is a fascination that equals that...
...Harbours of Memory" is his latest volume, and in it one may travel on an antiquated freighter from London to sunny Mediterranean ports. He shares with his readers the stifling atmosphere of a submarine chaser on a sultry summer afternoon off the coast of Spain. One can dreamazily with him of other ports and climes, and all the while may remain in the easy chair in his study while the logs on the hearth crackle merrily and the snow falls softly in the Yard outside
...disgraces popular government--the fact that the "bigger" men, those best qualified to judge cases involving business matters, are only to ready to shirk jury duty on the least excuse. Jury-dodging is one of the easiest things in the world; a plea if important business, physical weakness, or travel--excuses which the judge can scarcely question--are easy roads to freedom. But such evasion is sure to lead back to the slacker himself; if he refuses service himself, how can he expect a competent jury when his own case comes up for trial...
Fancy an investigator fifty years from now digging that up and trying to understand it. He might be writing a monumental work on the history of travel, showing how the moderns passed from one country to another, and with what motives. This little interchange might seem to be a precious bit of documentation for him, but what is its real explanation. The solemn senators did not say. They may have winked or smiled at each other, but the stenoraphers could not get that down. So, as far as the record goes, it must remain a mystery why Americans. Consule Volstead...
...Sunday afternoon, November 27, thirty-five members of the Club will sing with the Pierian Sodality Orchestra in the Copley Theatre, and on December 2 the club will travel to Fitchburg to give one of a series of concerts planned by the Smith College Club of Fitchburg...