Far Away: This swaddled child is far away from home on the road. (1930's On the Road)

Tease with Beans: Road trips can get long. This child passes the time by teasing his sibling, putting beans in their ears. (1930's On the Road)

Picture walking through the briars off the road and chance upon Rapunzel.

Chance Upon in the Briars: As a migrant family spends another night on the road, they walk through some briars and chance upon a shelter. (1930's On the Road)

So Far, Haven’t Begged: “So far, so good.” This family hasn’t had to beg for food yet. (1930's On the Road)

Modest Grandchild: Grandchildren will be taught modesty by hearing stories from grandparents who lived through the Great Depression by hitting the road. (1930's On the Road)

Make the Rounds in Silk Gauze: Desperate women in silk gauze stockings make the rounds to seek assistance. (1930's On the Road)

Stroll like Crazy: In normal times, strolling in the middle of the road would be crazy, but this road was abandoned when the factory closed. (1930's On the Road)

Satisfied: Horns on a Sow  Despite hard times, country fairs are alive and well. This self-satisfied sow, with horns on her head, is destined to win a prize. (1930's On the Road)

A rich, fat man is pressed up next to another passenger on the road, presses him to move over.

Press the Rich Man: Even though the stock market crash probably immediately affected the rich the most, they are still being pressed to help those in less fortunate circumstances than themselves. (1930's On the Road)

Picture the elegant road Champs d‘Elysee and how it penetrates the city of Paris.

Light Penetrates the Elegant Structure: During the New Deal era, many practical, yet elegant, civic buildings are being constructed across the country. See how light penetrates the elegant lobby of the Cohen Federal Building? (1930's On the Road)

Quick, Grab Your Bundle: The banks are scared of more defaults on loans. If the bank man is on his way to find you, quick, grab your bundle and hit the road. (1930's On the Road)

Narrate through Art: The WPA is commissioning hundreds of thousands of murals for public buildings like hospitals, schools, post offices and city halls. Murals narrate through art the stories of humanity. (1930's On the Road)

Mother typically used the hunter on the road to communicate with Grandmother

The Hunter Communicates: This boy communicates with his look that, as a hunter, he has no intention of continuing as a day laborer on the road like his father. (1930's On the Road)

A large dog reaches the injured runner on the road first.

When You Reach the Large Dog: A Hooverville in the west is located under a billboard with a large dog. Families looking for each other know they have arrived when they reach it. (1930's On the Road)

Flee, Rabbit: To supplement meager incomes, people are hunting rabbits and raising rabbits. A small boy, knowing his pet will become dinner one day, opens its cage and tells it to flee. (1930's On the Road)

Tardy means the Ruler: Schools in the 1930’s use corporal punishment. If you come in late from the road and are tardy, your hand gets slapped with a ruler. (1930's On the Road)

The miners kept coming, only to retreat when they found no silver.

The discount on coffins passes away as the salesman moves down the road.

Pass Away Discount: Terribly, unemployment always brings a rise in suicide. Seeing themselves as damaged goods, they hope to give their families a discount by passing away. (1930's On the Road)

Go Back Against: As Okies flow west, legislators from California go east, back against the flow, to Washington to demand support for migrants. (1930's On the Road)

One after Another Vehicles: Families are loading their vehicles, and one after another they are fleeing Oklahoma. (1930's On the Road)

Meeting with Cáo Cāo on the road: the Chinese equivalent of the English idiom "speak of the devil" is "speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives" (说到曹操，曹操就到)

Meet with Cao: For most Oakies, the first time meeting with a Chinese person is in California. (1930's On the Road)

Abide by Veneration: Traditional families still encourage their young to abide by what they’ve been taught despite difficulties, to venerate the road their forefathers have paved. (1930's On the Road)

Remote Cookie Jar: For those who have to leave their homes and take to the road, much was left behind that was impractical to carry. For this child, the cookie jar in the kitchen is becoming a remote memory. (1930's On the Road)

“Chocolate chip cookies, so far on the road…”

Exceed the Date on the Slaughterhouse Meat: In Depression times, nothing is wasted, even expired meat. Here the slaughterhouse is giving away anything extra to those headed out on the road. (1930's On the Road)

A patrol route is like a stream, it just keeps flowing down the road.

Patrol the Stream: “Hoovervilles” are shantytowns built by the homeless (named after President Herbert Hoover, whom many want to blame for the economic downturn). The Dust Bowl has exacerbated conditions, and some people in California are trying to patrol their border to prevent the stream of “Okies” from coming into their state. (1930's On the Road)

You hit your stride on the road at ten thousand steps.

StrideTen Thousand: The New Deal offers new hope to millions out of work. Government-created jobs encourage the country to stride forward into a new era, take ten thousand steps forward. (1930's On the Road)

Noah releases the dove one last time, and she doesn’t return. He takes this as a sign that it is time to leave the ark, that the road is requesting his presence. (Bible Series)

Request the Presence of Noah’s Dove: During the flood of misery during the Depression, people often request the presence of Noah’s dove of peace. (1930's On the Road)

Take the scenic route when you have excess time on the road.

Route of Excess: Some are saying following the route of excess during the 1920’s is what led to the scarcity of the 1930’s. (1930's On the Road)

Arrest the Bondservant: In some ways, sharecroppers during the Depression were bondservants. This one was minding his own business but still got arrested. (1930's On the Road)

Suitable for your Tongue: A common schoolhouse practice is licking the road as a suitable punishment for unsuitable words spoken in the classroom. (1930's On the Road)

To create, first declare and then take the long road to create it.

Create the Declare: FDR takes the helm and creates a declare, his New Deal. (1930's On the Road)

When the road is flat you can see everywhere.

Everywhere Is Flat: The interstate road projects started in the 1920’s and 30’s eventually will make it possible to say that in the United States, everywhere is flat. (1930's On the Road)

Encountering a Beekeeper: Human kindness can still be found. A family, who is headed west, encounters a beekeeper on the road and enjoys a sticky treat. (1930's On the Road)

Escape the Omen: Okies are just trying to escape disaster, but the omen is already on the road—thousands just like them. (1930's On the Road)

You see the omen on the road and try to escape your fate.

Speedy with Baiting Needles: Hearing the best prospects are out west, the Okies keep moving, only stopping for some speedy fishing with baiting needles to resupply their food. (1930's On the Road)

Bequeath the Expensive: Despite stock market fortunes disappearing, owners of expensive land and houses are still able to bequeath these treasures to their posterity. (1930's On the Road)

Lost despite Rice: A child wanders away from her family on the road, leaving a rice trail to find her way back, but it is eaten by birds, and she gets lost. (1930's On the Road)

Compelled by White: As new roads are constructed, a standardization of road rules is also taking place. The white lines compel you to stay in your lane. (1930's On the Road)

Disobey and Become a Tanned Hide: As new roads are constructed, road kill becomes more common. Too bad animals can’t learn to obey traffic signs. (1930's On the Road)

Evade the Border Police: Many states are deporting Mexicans and Mexican Americans to “free up jobs for unemployed Americans.” Even though much of this deportation is illegal (estimates show half or more are legal citizens), it goes on unchecked. Mexican immigrants are warning their family and friends to evade the border police (not show their spicy flag). (1930's On the Road)

as a component: “走之旁“

derivative: 之 *road block

Re-situated a Thousand Times: The Oakies moved over a thousand miles west, re-situating themselves each night. (1930's On the Road)

Screen the Booyah: On the road, if you have a big pot of booyah stew, you’ll have to screen it unless you are willing to share. (1930's On the Road)

Pursue the Sow: When people lose their jobs in the cities, they often return to family farms. But, even there times are hard, and an escaped sow would absolutely need to be pursued. (1930's On the Road)

Hand Over your Younger Brother: Turns out they got the wrong guy. You’d better hand over your younger brother. (1930's On the Road)

When walking an animal, you often have to stop and stay on the road while it does its business.

Walk and Stay: After a long day on the road this dog is happy to stay under the truck rather than be walked. (1930's On the Road)

The devil with his pitchfork stands in the middle of the road. Do you dare go against him? Or are you already a rebel with a devil-may-care attitude that has gone against norms?

Go Against the Devil’s Pitchfork: This preacher feels that to go against the right road is to follow the devil's pitchfork. (1930's On the Road)

You advance from well to well on the road.

Advance to the Well: As extended families attempt to stay together on the road, often messages are left for those who will follow behind. An example, “Advance to the Well.” (1930's On the Road)

Border with Muscle: With unemployment in the U.S. soaring, patrols are building up muscle on the border to keep Mexicans out. (1930's On the Road)

Do you want this road or that road? No, not that one.

Or No?: Should you hit the road, or no? Take our reader’s quiz to assess your probability of finding work. (1930's On the Road)

Cross Town with Your Thumb: Without money for transportation, many who hit the road have to rely on hitchhiking to get them to the next place. (1930's On the Road)

Deliver and Shut: These folks have delivered their kin to the road. Too old to travel themselves, they won’t shut the door until they are out of sight. (1930's On the Road)

The Way is Follow the Heads: Heads of religions are teaching the way to peace despite the trials of this life. (1930's On the Road)

You come to a fork in the road and choose the first one.

Choose First: Common advice given in this era for avoiding temptation is to “choose first” how you will act before a given situation arises. (1930's On the Road)

"Greet the Collection of Originals: Part of the New Deal is a Federal Art Project that will employ over 10,000 artists and establish over 100 community art centers where the public can greet the collections of originals commissioned during this time period." (1930's On the Road)

Monkey King is carried by a cloud instead of traveling on the road.

Carrying Goods Creates a Cloud: As the Okies move west carrying their goods, they create a cloud of exhaust on the road behind them. (1930's On the Road)