Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked out of the car window at farmers' brush fires. He dined early, on steak (medium), carrots, tea, Roquefort cheese. He smiled at Pullman-waiter T. C. Radcliffe, thanked him, retired to the club car to see Will Rogers in a cinema called A Texas Steer (comedy). Cuban travel scenes and "shots" of Havana were also shown...
...books of non-fiction, of philosophy or psychology, of travel or biography, that have struck the popular fancy recently, although usually validly interesting, have attained remarkable sales entirely unanticipated by their publishers. Surprised, and hopeful of repeating the successes, these gentlemen have responded by setting a horde of hack writers to work at mere compilation and redaction. The result has been a flood of matter that excells the pamphlets of former centuries only in that it is better bound and more expensive. Uneasy under the searchlight of critics, the public has been self-consciously seeking knowledge, but it is impossible...
Professor Donham and his wife will be with the party until they reach Naples Thereafter they will travel alone, visiting Egypt, Sicily, Paris, and London. From London they will return home...
...Travel is pretty expensive these days, and times are getting so that even when a person is dead he can't be assured that he will get any concessions from the steamship companies. A shipment of Yucatan Indians, bound for Cambridge, were forced to discard their personal identity before they could even get half-fare tickets...
...management one, insurance five, manufacturing 26, office management two, public utilities 15, real estate two, retail department store 19, sales 11, statistical six, teaching 12, textiles three, transportation three, bank examiner one, investment council three, government two, law one, publishing one, army and navy ten, foreign five, Canadian one, travel or study four. Nine men have not been heard from