Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient Cambridge, where, culture keeps a chain store or two, the pilgrims are returning to buy their stuff a home. The annual Grand Tour is a memory and some labels. And Baedecker's are packed away by tutors and tutees al ke. But down in the cellar of a musty, fussy old chateau in some place or other, probably Germany, Pan is counting coin and smiling. It was, on the whole he finds, an excellent year...
Madame Marthe Bray, president of the French Women's Suffrage Alliance, sat by the chauffeur, directed him to halt at localities judged fallow for stump speaking. The response of the southern French peasantry to this whirlwind "missionary tour" in behalf of women's suffrage was reported "cold...
When the California anchored off Beirut, a month ago, 50 males and 140 females of her 400 passengers were booked for the optional trip to Damascus. Resolutely curious, they feared not rebels, waited with calm expectancy for their tour manager, Mr. Robert Grinsel, to disperse the heathen who barred their way. He, resourceful, secured from the resident French commander at Beirut an armed motor convoy and an armored train. Ninety-five of the tourists motored in trucks bristling with machine guns. The rest entrained behind stout armor plates from which bristled French 75's. No sooner were they quartered...
...considered from every angle a dark-haired, athletic young thing named Beryl Mills, finally arriving at the conclusion that, of hundreds of other specimens studied, she was the finest young university woman Australia had produced in this generation. Thereupon they named her "Miss Australia" and awarded her an educational tour of the U. S. Last week she had crossed the continent from west to east. Manhattan newspaper reporters could think of but one thing to ask anyone called "Miss Australia": would she enter the current beauty contest at Atlantic City, where pursy bankers, showmen, hotel loungers and politicians...
Into a white circle at the Ford airport, Detroit, flew a straggling squadron of airplanes-19 of the 23 that had set out a fortnight ago on the 2,555-mile Ford Reliability Tour around a rough quadrangle cornered by St. Paul, Lincoln, Neb., Cincinnati and Cleveland (TIME, Aug. 9). Each entry had been rated according to its fuel consumption, manageability, carrying power, and other qualities, leaving it up to the pilots to gain further points by good speed and navigation in getting from point to point. Not a great deal of figuring was needed to award first prize...