Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court were busily storing up energy against that day next October when they will sit for the first time in their new marble temple across the plaza from the Capitol and resume their constitutional wrestling match with the New Deal. After a long motor trip through New England, Chief Justice Hughes arrived with Mrs. Hughes and their chauffeur at Buffalo, N. Y. "I'm sorry, but I cannot give time for an interview," he explained courteously to reporters. "I cannot permit a picture to be taken, either." Thereupon, majestically unaware of a skulking cameraman...
...Justice Brandeis was at his Chatham cottage on Cape Cod. Mr. Justice Cardozo was sunning himself at Rye, N. Y. Mr. Justice Butler was golfing at Bluemont, Va. Mr. Justice Roberts was on his 700-acre farm near Kimberton, Pa. Mr. Justice Sutherland was on his 24th trip to Europe. Mr. Justice Stone loafed at his favorite island near Isle au Haut, Me. And Mr. Justice McReynolds, visiting a friend at Gloucester, Mass., gave an interview to the Beverly Times about the Constitution...
...return trip, in token of his shelving, M. Bertrand ceased to dine on the Normandie with the wife of the President of France. After this self-effacement, which Frenchmen considered in exceedingly good taste, he put on a short, sharp political fight in Paris to get back his job as Minister of Marine...
...works, half by the national Government and the other half by the 86 French prefectures. Obviously, the moment was opportune for Premier Laval to pull tighter the reins by which Paris controls France. For the first time in history all prefects were summoned to the Capital. Most made their trip in their official limousines and gleaming, long-snouted Renaults roared in over all the main roads of France...
...strutted about the campus of Reed College, chuckling over a great private joke. As delegates to the second annual Japan-U. S. Student Conference, they had been asked to appear in kimonos. Since most of them wear Western dresses at home, they had spent a good part of their trip across the Pacific learning, for the first time in their lives, to tie the big, brocaded sashes which traditionally girdle Japanese kimonos...