Word: wanderlustful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vernal wanderlust commenced stirring last week. Last year some half billion dollars were spent in Europe by U. S. tourists, who traveled solitary or under the auspices of travel agencies such as Thomas Cook & Son. What was spent by the thousands who toured similarly to Asiatic countries, to the Mediterranean shore lands, the Holy Land, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, it is difficult to estimate. Almost as much, probably...
Even professors get the Wanderlust at times and stray from the straight and narrow of their academic paths. Professor Young has left his own rostrum to shed light on international matters in Geneva but at 9 o'clock this morning he is going to visit Economics 2 in Harvard 1, where he will discuss the problems of money and banking in England that were caused by the wandering around Europe of Corsica's most famous citizen. It is only fair for me to make the retort courteous to my most illustrious disciple and vagabond with...
...fared well until he reached :he age of 36, and then the wanderlust came upon him, and he wished very dearly to convert the heathen in Frisia*. So he traveled there but was soon expelled by the King Radbod. Three years later the Pope (Gregory II) sent him to Germany converting, baptizing, success in Bavaria and Thuringia, but, hearing of King Radbod's death, he rushed back to Frisia. Three years after he returned to Thuringia and Hesse. He converted so many heathen chieftains and common people that the Pope summoned him to Rome and made him a bishop...
What gives the shore lines wanderlust...
...number of such seamen protem,' has increased since the appearance of federally operated boats," he declared. "Thus, of the thousands who feel the wanderlust when school is closing, hundreds possess fathers who know somebody who knows somebody else who has a friend on the Government payroll.. So they gain access with their brand-new oilskins and their letters of introduction to ship offices on Broadway, New York, while the old-timers wait outside...