Word: journey
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...straw or brick in darkness. On Oct. 12 we were brought in trucks to Marseille for a hearing. Among this group were only the German and Austrian Jews from the Virgilio. After the hearing we were told that we were free and could continue our journey with our wives. Rear Admiral Muselier, Commander of Marseille, personally came over to our truck and assured us that we could sail soon and that our papers and money would be returned to us. In the meantime, however, we had to return to the concentration camp to await further orders...
...Journey to the Sun. Miami Beach is "the Beach" because a man named Carl Graham Fisher had imagination and $5,000,000. Carl Fisher was an Indiana Hoosier, and he was a humdinger. He made his first fortune in PrestOLite acetylene lamps for automobiles, sold out just as electric headlights were coming in. That was 1911, Carl Fisher was 37, and he was honing to play with his money. So he had the Seabury Shipyards in New York City build him a motor yacht, invited Seabury's Superintendent John H. Levi to go on the first cruise-down...
...presses a button. From a swimming pool in the yard a model airplane climbs to him on cables. Sitting on a trapeze slung from the undercarriage, he presses another button, the plane heads for the pool. Mr. Moore lets go in time to flop into the water. On the journey back he just hangs on until the plane deposits him on the balcony again...
...Peking. Purpose of the trip was to learn how hostile mandarins and officials had accepted the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War, to pick up useful military data for possible future use. The Mannerheim party traveled 8,750 miles on horseback, lost two Cossacks from the hardships of the journey, had many adventures. Colonel Mannerheim kept the Dalai Lama waiting to receive him while he carefully shaved and dressed, made his peace with the gift of a revolver, which he showed the Lama how to use. At Lhabrang Monastery he was hissed and stoned by pilgrims. The expedition took...
Like kippers, like cricket, like Punch, the annual feasts of the Lord Mayor of London are an established British institution. At them highly placed British officials are traditionally supposed to say something very important. Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made the two-mile journey across London from Downing Street to the financial district and, in the spacious Egyptian Hall of Mansion House, addressed "my Lord Mayor" and his 600 guests. The Prime Minister did not talk about the war; he talked all around the war, making an amiable goodwill tour among those whom Great Britain wants to have...