Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President set March 24 as the date of his departure for what has become his annual spring fishing trip in Florida waters with Vincent Astor on the Nourmahal. Before sailing from Miami he is scheduled to meet the honeymooning Duke & Duchess of Kent...
...Defying her parents, she entered a Visitation convent at 18, left it during the Revolution, later tried to run a little sisterhood of her own. Finally she joined Mme Barat's new order. In 1818 Mother Barat sent her to the U. S. with four companions. Of the trip she said: "There is not much fun in it unless you do it for God." Arrived in New Orleans, she soon made a 40-day trip to St. Louis where the local Bishop welcomed her to his "palace," a barn, and his "cathedral," a shanty in which the prelate doubled...
That he can no longer venture outside Suffolk, Va. without having his identity mistaken is the well-founded conviction of Suffolk's Mayor Otis S. Smith who told newshawks of his latest adventure. On a trip to Manhattan, Mayor Smith went one evening to see his old schoolmate James Bell in Tobacco Road. Between acts he stepped into a restaurant to buy cigarets. The master of ceremonies took one look at him, signaled the orchestra for a fanfare, announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have with us tonight one of the greatest celebrities of the nation, the Honorable James...
...would be practicable to anchor miniature seadromes at intervals over the Pacific, use them as 24-hr. broadcasting stations. Estimated useful range of the Kruesi Compass over water was 700 mi., out-&-out maximum 1,500 mi. The windowless Douglas, manned by Army blind flying experts, took a "feeler" trip out over the Pacific, located several ships by radio, flew back through blinding fog with perfect accuracy...
...wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds." But the long, tough course had not really beaten the onetime light-heavyweight boxing champion of the British Royal Air Force. Few months afterward he flew back to England in record time. Later he made a second trip, settled down to a job as commercial pilot in Australia, got his face permanently scarred when he dashed into a burning plane to save a passenger after a crash. Last autumn tall, rangy Lieut. Scott came to world fame when he flew to Australia once more, won the MacRobertson Trophy Race...