Word: wanderluster
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...well-off hotel-managing family. His father treated him to painting lessons at five. At 15 young Stan rebelliously went to sea on a windjammer, got so seasick that he was put off at Hawaii. Private detectives sent by his father brought him back home. His family solved his wanderlust by sending him off at 16 to France to study...
...snatched a few hours of sleep in the afternoon. He got his M.D. (cum laude) at 26, resigned his telegrapher's job the same day. Meanwhile, his sister Maria had married a prosperous Belo Horizonte surgeon, who made Kubitschek his assistant. A year later, bitten by wanderlust, Kubitschek borrowed money from rich friends and took off for Europe-supposedly to study, but actually to satisfy his itch to see what lay beyond the Belo Horizonte horizon. He did some serious postgraduate work at clinics in Paris. Berlin and Vienna, but he also spent a lot of time...
...story of the walking Gills confirmed a long suspicion that our family inherited their wanderlust from our Manx father and not our Scots mother, who bore and weaned the six of us in Uganda. After wandering the globe, brother Ian settled in India, brother Noel in Mauritius, sister Kathleen in Iraq, sister Betty in Rhodesia and twin sister Doreen in Canada. I keep in touch with them all from this address...
...adventures and jobs since they became grade-school pals in Missoula, Mont. 28 years ago. Sharing an early interest in journalism, they worked together on the Missoula County High School and Montana State University newspapers. Out of college in 1939, they both came down with a critical case of wanderlust and left Missoula in Forbis' Model A Ford to tour the U.S. and Mexico. Neither ever returned to Missoula for long...
...hobbits turn out to be more like people than people. Frodo is a happy hobbit who whiles away his "tweens"-the "irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three." Only at 50 is Frodo driven onto the road to trouble and adventure, by a touch of wanderlust and by the minions of the tyrannical Lord of Mordor, who are scouring hobbitland for the ring...