Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrecked off the U. S. Pacific Coast in 1924, on a return voyage from San Francisco to New Siberia, Trader Welzl, lacking identification papers, was deported to his homeland Czechoslovakia. He had never heard of the place. Long before the War he had left Moravia to wander far & wide. Returned there a Czech, he lectured, dictated reminiscences (made literate by others), collected money enough to return to his polar home...
...next position Sally, after a mourning while, forgets too; because in John Saril's household she finally graduates from maid to mistress. Middleaged, morose John Saril gives Sally real love, intends to marry her, make her his heir. But Death suddenly intervenes, and Sally must wander on again. In love, as in her maid's life, there is no resting place...
...native fishers, who looked on the continent as a distant planet, he was a wonder and delight. By day he would wander along the beach, picking shells and tossing pebbles in the ocean, or telling fairy tales to the children. He never worked. In the fishing boats he was an awkward hand, and let them alone, but in the pub at evening a grand man for a pot of ale and a wild story of the foreign lands. They would sit and talk about his quiet manner and his witty speech, and why, do you think, he should be coming...
...lunchroom which was recently installed at Eliot House has turned out to be, in its short existence, a great success. It has become the basis both for the penniless student who desires nourishment after studying and the student who has change in his pocket but is too lazy to wander up to the Square. Furthermore, it serves as a pleasant rendezvous for undergraduate groups after amusements or athletic engagements...
...Juniors wander into Widener and are rather amazed by it. There are so many books, so many tables, so many people, so little time. But he sits down to work, he's loafed long enough...