Word: pilgrim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring in the crutches. But not for Ludwig. While other mimes and ballerinas were hung and propped, while even the desiccated swan on the backdrop drooped under the caresses of a clambering nymph in white winter underwear, Ludwig stood it out. But as the music trailed off into the Pilgrim's Chorus, Ludwig sank to earth, plaintively opening a black umbrella...
...late, great U. S. poets, settled for the top-ranked 32,* arranged with NBC a 12,000-mile Odyssey to broadcast from their homes, workshops, shrines. After an unofficial send-off from Admirer Auslander at the Library of Congress, the Pilgrimage got under way last Sunday. Pilgrim Malone visited the room in the Roger Brooke Taney house at Frederick, Md. which Francis Scott Key used to frequent, broadcast chattily of the old medico whose truculence toward the British got Key in the prison-ship predicament that inspired his deathless ditty...
...nary a tree on the place. Stephen Crane's in Newark was being torn down; Malone got it a reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust...
...death. Last week bazaars buzzed and beards wagged at the announcement that Kings Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and Farouk of Egypt had agreed to install infidel gadgets, running water and electric light, in the ancient cities of Mecca and Medina, and to build modern highways along the pilgrim routes which now connect them with the outside world. The innovations should stimulate the pilgrim trade on which both cities depend, which will redound to the greater glory of Ibn Saud, Farouk and Allah...
Specializing in quality work, Pilgrim prospered. By 1913 Partners Dann and Bancker could afford a new $1,000,000 plant, as light and airy as any in the country. They set up recreation facilities, a vacation clubhouse, took to calling employes Pilgrims, put a name plate at every worker's post. In 1921 they began letting all employes buy stock. By 1937 employes owned over 50%. Mr. Bancker having died the year before, they were also offered his 25%, leaving Mr. Dann only 25%. The price of the company's shares once...