Key words and phrases Margaret Bondfield, Michael Pupin, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Harriet Hosmer, Edward Bok, RICHARD EVELYN BYRD, EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY, Eskimos, Illinois tribe, Edward MacDowell, Idvor, FRANCIS PARKMAN, Richard Byrd, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Victoria Island, Serbian, Spitzbergen, Little America, Karluk, Prince Marko |
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 | Prague - Page 38He wrote to his mother that he was going to a land where there were far better schools than those in Prague. Then the youth found himself one stormy ...more pages: 35 37 40 |
| Wiesbaden - Page 166Fame, if not wealth, found MacDowell in his Wiesbaden retreat. Madame Carreno's playing.more pages: 165 |
| Whittier - Page 212In speaking of this statue the poet Whittier said : "It very fully expresses my conception of what historical sculpture should be. ...more pages: 227 |
More | San Diego, California - Page 60A storm held him in San Diego for four days. All of the time of enforced waiting, as well as that spent in making the overland hop to St. ...more pages: 58 59 74 |
| Brighton - Page 249hills where she played began when, at the age of eight, she was allowed to make the journey alone to Brighton, where a brother and sister were living. ...more pages: 250 260 |
| Lansing, Iowa - Page 204the young people went ashore, and to-day the highest bluff in the Mississippi valley, near the city of Lansing, Iowa, bears the name of Mount Hosmer, ... |
| Mexico City - Page 72Christmas Day was spent in Mexico City as the guest of Ambassador Morrow. It was at this time that he met the lovely and gifted daughter of the ...more pages: 70 |
| St. Louis - Page 60All of the time of enforced waiting, as well as that spent in making the overland hop to St. Louis and on to New York, was taken as opportunity for ...more pages: 56 57 204 213 |
| Philadelphia - Page 181The exhibition of pictures brought together then in Philadelphia opened the eyes of the enthusiastic young illustrator to a world of art which he had ...more pages: 40 176 233 234 |
| Pensacola - Page 87Byrd went to Pensacola in 1917. At that time airplanes were far from perfect, and accidents occurred with terrible frequency. ... |
| San Francisco - Page 83At San Francisco he took a boat for Manila. Can you imagine him with his eyes fairly popping out of his head, trying to see as much of the great world ...more pages: 74 |
| Paris - Page 69The flight to Mexico was in some respects more difficult than the crossing to Paris, because when over the ocean there were only five hours of ...more pages: 11 57 62 65 66 156 208 261 284 |
| New York - Page 60Louis and on to New York, was taken as opportunity for gathering additional data that might prove valuable in the days ahead. ...more pages: 40 66 74 84 179 182 213 220 228 229 |
| El Paso, Texas - Page 70"While in Arizona and also at El Paso, Texas, on my tour of America, I met Mexican officials interested in aviation, and brother pilots who treated me ... |
| Karlovac - Page 36When they had said good-by at Karlovac, the town where their seminary was located, the boy suddenly bethought him that it was a long time since his ... |
| Berlin - Page 43are now no longer like a goose in a fog, as your quaint Serbian saying puts it," declared Tyndall, when he sent him to begin his studies in Berlin. ...more pages: 44 |
| Stuttgart - Page 159After much consideration he decided to go with his mother to Stuttgart. A few weeks of that conservative German city, however, convinced them that the ... |
| Boston - Page 199she indulged in all sorts of mad pranks, such as slipping away one moonlight night and going for a horseback ride alone seven miles out of Boston. ...more pages: 5 167 228 |
| London - Page 255women faced in London shops, they chose Margaret Bondfield to carry forward the inquiry ; and the report that she presented of long hours, ...more pages: 66 164 208 254 258 |
| Rome - Page 212Since my flock of "Pucks" make it unnecessary for me to stay in Rome for the delicious August malaria, I live and move and have my being on the ...more pages: 206 207 |
| Lincoln, Nebraska - Page 52He left Wisconsin for Lincoln, Nebraska, where he was entered as a flying student with the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation. ... |
| Budapest - Page 35First there were two days by steamer on the Danube to Budapest, where he was to take a train to Prague — another day's journey. ... |
| Zurich - Page 162to play his first piano suite at the annual convention of the General Society of German Musicians, which was to be held that summer in Zurich. ... |
| Minneapolis - Page 204Paul and the site of the present city of Minneapolis, which at that time had not begun to make its appearance on the map. ... |
| Wichita, Kansas - Page 75A stop of twenty-two minutes was made at Wichita, Kansas, to take on fuel and oil. The pilot and his wife had their meals in the air. ... |
| Brooklyn - Page 220a strange place where everybody spoke a language new to the two boys of six and eight, who, the day after a place was found in Brooklyn for them to ... |
| New Orleans - Page 204Louis to New Orleans, and then north to St. Paul and the site of the present city of Minneapolis, which at that time had not begun to make its ... |
| Annapolis - Page 85It was at least some consolation to him, however, to know that Annapolis had come off with flying colors in spite of everything. |
| Winchester, Virginia - Page 80His home was in Winchester, Virginia, in the lovely Shenandoah Valley, not far from the Shen- andoah Caverns and other famous caves. ... |
| Florence - Page 208When the Brownings were in England or in Florence the friendship was carried on by means of long, chatty letters. ... |
| Detroit - Page 68In Detroit, a special seat was contrived next the pilot of the famous plane built for one, to give Henry Ford his first trip in an airplane. ... |
| Los Angeles - Page 74on Easter Day, 1930, Colonel Lindbergh made with his wife a flight from Los Angeles to New York in order to test the flying conditions for. |
| Vienna - Page 37When he awoke he found himself in Vienna with no money to pay his fare back to Prague. A gray-haired man who was traveling with his wife consoled him ... |
| Edmonton - Page 117They journeyed first to Edmonton and then to the Athabasca Kiver. Traveling here was still by stagecoach. On the river they had their choice of scow ... |
| Gloucester - Page 188I had finished the picture of Gloucester and Lady Anne, I discovered that I had the wrong quarter- ings on the coat-of-arms decoration of my lady's ... |
| Jacksonville, Florida - Page 52The rest was passed journeying to Jacksonville, Florida, and back to Madison on his motor-cycle. He spent in all just seventeen days and thirty -nine ... |
| Washington, DC - Page 51"I always knew I wanted to fly since I saw my first airplane in Washington, DC, in 1912," he. |
| Chicago - Page 56Louis and Chicago. Here in winter, with early darkness closing in, an unlighted route, and poor air-ports, there was much to try the courage and ... |
| Quebec - Page 7Could the French have maintained their ground, the ruin of the Indian tribes might long have been postponed; but the victory of Quebec was the signal ... |
| Madison - Page 52The rest was passed journeying to Jacksonville, Florida, and back to Madison on his motor-cycle. He spent in all just seventeen days and thirty -nine ... |
| St. Augustine - Page 238Florida co- quina rock — the same mellow, light-tan stone that was used by the Spanish settlers in the building of the ancient fort at St. Augustine. ... |
| Etah - Page 91Leaving Wiscasset, on the coast of Maine, June 20, 1925, the expedition set out for Etah, an Eskimo settlement on the northwestern shore of Greenland, ... |
| Manila - Page 83At San Francisco he took a boat for Manila. Can you imagine him with his eyes fairly popping out of his head, trying to see as much of the great world ... |
Other editions | by Mary Rosetta Parkman
Snippet view - 1967
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