Word: rotterdam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idyllic about the scene of 500 world-circling U. S. scholars kneeling and being blessed in the Vatican; bowing and being scrutinized and handshaken, later, by swart Benito Mussolini. After jotting down their notes on Rome's more important institutions, the students re-embarked for Nice, Paris, Brussels, Rotterdam, Oslo, London, home...
SAILING ACROSS EUROPE-Negley Farson-Century ($3.50). Everyone knows that Europe's air system now reaches every important city and many an unimportant. But who knew that for centuries it has been possible to travel inland by boat from Rotterdam, climb the Rhine, get into the Danube and debouch upon the Black Sea? The key link is the Ludwig Canal, begun by Charlemagne 1,200 years ago. With 101 locks in 107 miles it climbs out of Bavaria through the clouds of the Frankischer Jura mountains and deposits you in Austria. . The German Consulate at London had never heard...
British air liners roar up daily from Croydon, air port of London, carry passengers to Paris, Brussels, Rotterdam and Amsterdam for but little more than the price of a first class ticket by rail and water. Many a tourist, surprised at the cheapness of these fares asks: "Do the planes...
Mynheer Zimmermann. Bald, suave, aristocratic, just, fluent master of five languages, for 15 years able Burgomaster of Rotterdam Dr. Zimmermann spoke with not unseemly pride of his achievements to newsgatherers last week: "I came to a country in financial chaos. The task which I undertook was an entirely new one, without precedent in history. . . . It was not an easy task...
...Doran ($2.00). Not a very satisfying book unless you are either a passionate pilgrim or a fervent admirer of the sheer literary skill of slender, drooping, cynical Mr. Huxley. Here he is less cynical than usual, for he is traveling, enjoying himself, not trying particularly to be clever. In Rotterdam, Mantua, Siena, Munich, Monte Carlo, he idly employs his notebook to jot notes which will keep his warm coat of culture sleek and glossy. He takes the usual liberties?writing about his spectacles, the books he takes, Why Not Stay Home, etc.?but still he is Mr. A. Huxley...