Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peep shows because the Government thought they were giving Paris a bad name. Most of them were run by Algerians or Levantines or Greeks. Of course Chiappe hasn't interfered with the regular, licensed-maisons kept and patronized by the French themselves. He has been out after the tourist show places...
...citizens, contemplating Havana vacations, could pick between two 20,000-ton ships, each a trans-Atlantic veteran, each the favorite of many a tourist. The President Roosevelt was obviously cheaper. What were other pros and cons? Prospective travelers weighed them...
...lady taking an Italian lesson; she was a Cockney girl on the Thames embankment; she was a Philadelphia matron at a children's party; she was a Polish actress, having scenes with her director; she was an English horsewoman, mouthing at her breakfast; she was a U. S. tourist in an Italian-church; she was a Dalmatian peasant girl, standing in the hallway of a U. S. hospital, asking about her husband who was hurt. Then she was Ruth Draper again, standing on the stage and bowing to the applause...
...himself been in the show business for 30 years, first in a singing stock company in Colorado Springs, then as a legit-actor touring the Middle West in comedy, tragedy and operetta, and subsequently as wardrobe man, property man, chorus man, transportation agent, scenery-shifter (for Mansfield, Mojeska, Mantell), tourist guide, interior decorator, before his first cinema appearance as an extra in a wild west two-reeler. His face had been smeared with pie in many slapsticks when a director selected it to be a crook-cripple's in The Miracle Man. Alonzo Chaney's present salary, kept...
...Melville W. Fuller, who had sworn the last five Presidents, administered the oath. Then came the historic Inaugural Ball in the cavernous Pension Building. Roosevelt slipped out a side door of the White House and soon was tracking and slaying wild animals in an Africa not yet crowded by tourist-hunters. Taft stayed behind, corpulent, just, constantly annoying his children, the citizens, by his benevolent logic. They had voted for him because the dynamic, hustle-up Roosevelt had told them to. When they found how unRooseveltian Taft was, they were vexed. Their clamor pained and confused him. The late Senator...