Word: wanderlusting
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...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...
...full poignancy of wandering and the wanderlust cannot be appreciated unless one has a home. The Marines are, by nature of their calling, wanderers. But they have a home; it is Quantico, Va., their great training ground, the place from which they go forth in war and peace to the ends of the round earth. Now it is proposed that the Marines should own their own home...
...ARCHER, U. S. A.-R. H. Platt, Jr.-Doubleday ($2.50). The self-told tales of an old timer in the army, "translated into writing from the oral," are made into a book. It is the life story of a man who satisfied his wanderlust in the Army. He took a hand at San Juan, in Luzon, in the Boxer Rebellion, in an Honduran revolution, in the Great War, and tells about them all as his personal adventures. The book has no style except the lingo of the doughboy, but it makes a flowing tale that carries the reader off forgetfully...