Word: wanderluster
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...knew that Terry was having a mild sort of love affair with Hu Shee in the Boston Herald before he stumbled onto Burma and that nasty Kiel. Still he couldn't believe that all Chinese girls looked like Hu Shee. Otherwise the Vag might have felt the old wanderlust boiling in his veins. Probably all Chinese girls wore pig-tails, and being very mature, Vag felt above that sort of thing...
...campaigned hard for many a rural benefit (free schools, State fairs, crop rotation, a law to keep livestock from roaming at large) that later became fact. Each year he told his readers what Prairie Farmer had earned, how much he had kept as profit. From time to time wanderlust would seize him, and he would disappear for six months or a year to trade in real estate or dicker with eastern capitalists...
...really picturesque personalities in U. S. education, Bill McGovern inherited his wanderlust from his father, an army officer, and his mother. Born in Manhattan, he started to travel when he was six weeks old. His mother once took him to Mexico just to see a revolution. At 16 he studied in a monastery in Kyoto, Japan, became a Buddhist priest...
...payroll murder, got jobs in transient bureaus which never lasted longer than the time it took to check up on her past record. When Bertha struck up acquaintance with a statistician working on a Federal transient survey and he offered her a job, she took it; her wanderlust was nearly sated. She decided to settle down in Manhattan, raise her own child. She was 30, and she had seen the world...
...idle to speculate, as the men of the conference did, as to the causes of what they like to call as "unwarranted exodus" on the part of college graduates in search of jobs. This movement is not caused by "wanderlust," "higher pay elsewhere," "the traditional conservatism of New England," or other irrelevant facts. The crux of the situation is that no matter how large a place New England naturally occupies in our sentiments and affections, it is only a very small part of the industrial and intellectual life of the country...