Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contestants . . . and a return ticket . . . who? . . . Cove? Kove? GOVE, Gove, GOVE? Lydia Pinkham? ... At last Helen Park remembered. She had seen a notice that, for the best 250-word letter by a New England college student or graduate telling why he or she wanted to visit California, a free trip by air would be given by a Miss Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass. Helen Park could remember nothing of what she had written except the tremendous reason, "just for the ride." It was astonishing, disconcerting. . . . Helen Park took the fuming lady at her table...
When the California anchored off Beirut, a month ago, 50 males and 140 females of her 400 passengers were booked for the optional trip to Damascus. Resolutely curious, they feared not rebels, waited with calm expectancy for their tour manager, Mr. Robert Grinsel, to disperse the heathen who barred their way. He, resourceful, secured from the resident French commander at Beirut an armed motor convoy and an armored train. Ninety-five of the tourists motored in trucks bristling with machine guns. The rest entrained behind stout armor plates from which bristled French 75's. No sooner were they quartered...
...about to start operating, between Seattle and Los Angeles. Trains take 63 hr. up or down this stretch of coast. Eight planes were in readiness to fly it, four each way daily, in 13¼ hr. Night flying was planned for the beginning of each trip, the planes setting out at 3:45 a. m., arriving at 5 p. m. with five stops* on the way: Portland, Medford, San Francisco, Fresno, Bakersfield. When begun, it was to make the 13th operating contract route that has been instituted in the U. S. since February-a network that now totals some...
...shall be in Santa Barbara for another month, but I shall, of course, make a special trip to Los Angeles on Aug. 31 to vote for you." The California Primaries are just about the best political sideshow now on view in the Republic. Presidential hopefuls and other bigwigs, unheard-ofs and the ghosts of bygone statesmen crowd the stage. Local feuds, Hearstling newspapers, religion, and the World Court make good scenery...
...Ellsworth was quoted directly. Hurt, angry, he flayed the Norwegian Aero Club for permitting Nobile to assume prominence upon the expedition in the first instance, and specifically, for telling Nobile, lately, that he might write more than a "technical appendix" to the official book of the trip, which Ellsworth and Amundsen are compiling. Words like this came forth: "They have handed me a rotten deal. . . . How very different when they needed money...