Word: journey
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Barbara, a beauteous Middle East virgin of the Third Century, was kept in a tower by her stern, heathen father, one Dioscorus. Be fore leaving on a journey, he ordered a bath house for her, with two windows. In his absence, she got the architect to make it three windows. When her father returned, she confessed the three windows were for the Trinity: she had become a Christian. Dioscorus had her tortured, sentenced to die, himself beheaded her. On his way home from court he was struck by lightning, burned to death. Thereafter people, especially gunners and miners, called...
...JOURNEY INTO FEAR-Eric Ambler -Knopf ($2). Wartime attempt of a Britisher, traveling in naval ordnance, to get home from Turkey. His gradual realization that he must be murdered, Turkish gestures of protection, changing plans, sudden death on his ship-this is ordinary intrigue material made into a knockout story...
...married Mimosa Gates, a prospector's sister, soon headed south for California. In California came the whisper again: Gold in Nevada! Key Pittman arrived in Tonopah, Nev. by stagecoach, a journey colder and more hazardous than any Klondike trip. That was 1902. "Winter of Death," when men dug as many holes for graves as for gold. Pittman missed both, settled down as Tonopah's legal light. By 1910 he was restless again. Congress didn't seem to understand mining-especially silver mining. He went to the Senate in 1912, was re-elected...
High winds blew sleet and straight-driving rains over the whole war area. These stopped machinery but not mules and men. The rains of Greece make even peaceful travel slow. When he went through Epirus in 1809, Byron wrote his mother: "Our journey was much prolonged by the torrents that had fallen from the mountains and intersected the roads." Successful conquest of these mountainous, slippery areas would have to be brought about on general principles of caution and surprise which have held ever since Hannibal crossed the Alps. Even against an inept enemy, the Italians probably could accomplish this conquest...
...following day a different Harvard delegation will journey to Providence, where it will support the abolition of the fraternity system against Brown. This debate will also be broadcast, this time over Station WEAN. Harold M. Bailin '43 and Keith Symon '42 will be the Crimson speakers...