Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That could only be duplicated By a rocket trip to Mars...
...between Switzerland and Italy, the Augustinian canons and their servants on duty there last week watched a train of sleds zigzag its way up the pass from the Swiss side. Snow was deep; wind blistering. None, remarked the canons, but Americans with their quaint inquisitiveness would make such a trip in such weather. Forthwith they sent servants to heat liquids. Other servants they dispatched to assemble the St. Bernard dogs, those great spaniels bred to retrieve humans from the Alpine snows just as Newfoundland dogs, another breed of spaniel, retrieve humans from waters. The canons rarely accompany the dogs...
...Grayson existed in all comfort contributed by her real estate activities. She sold a million dollars' worth of property a year. Her bid to bridge the seas was not for contracts in movie houses. Last fall she twice tried the trip, and failed. Said...
...Author, Dancer Duncan, was born in 1880. Her life shows equally the influence of iced oysters, champagne, and her uneasy but auspicious star. Having composed this detailed and candid history, she planned to follow it with a volume about a trip to Russia?for which "I would hail a New World," was a sort of preface. This second volume she did not accomplish. When she had finished My Life, in the spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving...
...Field at 2.39. . . . He had covered more than 2,000 miles in 27 hours, 15 minutes . . . from the crowd delirious shouts of joy . . . motorcycle police rushed toward the spot . . . Lindbergh was lifted upon the shoulders of his new Mexican admirers and placed into an automobile which began a slow trip to the Presidential stand. . . . The American hero seemed tired when he marched up to the President, but he was smiling happily. Speaking through an interpreter, President Calles assured him of Mexico's delight. . . . The greeting not entirely formal. The President grasped the flyer's hand warmly and threw...