Word: trippers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widow named Clara Adams, famed in airline circles as an inveterate first-nighter, saw her chance. When Pan American's Dixie Clipper soared away from Port Washington, L. I. on its first transatlantic passenger flight, Mrs. Adams took her seat. In Marseille her plans nearly went agley. Fellow-tripper Julius Rappaport of Allentown, Pa., confessed that he too hankered to make a record. With chivalry worthy of Phileas Fogg, he finally withdrew, leaving Widow Adams unrivaled in the field. July 3rd found Widow Adams in Jodhpur, India, joshing its photophobic maharajah into posing with her for a snapshot...
Among the 22 early birds: Benjamin ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, demon speculator in oil, gold, airplanes; rich Long Island widow Clara Adams, inveterate first tripper who is trying to round the world in 16 days (for passage on the Graf Zeppelin in 1928 she paid $3,000); Mrs. Elizabeth Stettinius Trippe, wife of Pan American President Juan Terry Trippe; Captain Torkild Rieber, Board Chairman of Texas Corp.; United States Lines President John M. Franklin; Investment Banker Harold Leonard Stuart; a lawyer from Allentown, Pa., named Julius Rapoport; San Francisco Shipowner Roger Lapham, whose American Hawaiian Steamship...
...World's Fair tripper, taking art on the run, could hardly ask for anything more panoramic. Ranging from tame portraits of young girls to woozy, crawling abstractions, from genteel sculptures in baby-blue plaster to great blocks of stone, from Christmas-cardy woodcuts to elusive black-and-whites, the show represents all trends, tastes, techniques. A few exhibits, with their wavering lines, naïve perspectives, jumbled colors, may invite perplexed comparison with little Hilda's fourth-grade drawings. But there is not enough surrealism to bite beholders. Many things in the exhibition treat in some...
...familiar prima ballerinas-Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova, Alexandra Danilova and Tamara Toumanova-the first two were missing. In their places were two newly acquired slim-limbed bids for U.S. favor: diminutive, British-born Alicia Markova (Alice Marks), and Nini Theilade (pronounced Tay-lah'-de), an exotic, Javanese-born tripper of mixed Danish, Polish, German and Hindu extraction...
Sightseeing in Vienna for the first time, Britain's Edward of Wales last week inevitably went to see yellow-stuccoed Schönbrunn Castle and took snapshots like any other tripper. Afterward, not satisfied with the Schönbrunn guide books, he sent out an aide to get research material on that House of Habsburg that was once accustomed to occupy Schönbrunn in the summertime and on its last great Emperor, long-legged, Dundreary-whiskered Franz Josef...