Word: expositioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paris hotels were all more nearly full than at any time since 1929. Best rooms were taken, but rooms of sorts were still available to late comers, and the Government were rigidly keeping prices reasonable. Since Paris is the capital of fashion, females from all over the world are now...
The Exposition offers no French motor cars, but at 15,000 francs or $560 was offered last week the two-cylinder 32 h. p. Taupin monoseater sport plane, built for safe piloting by amateurs and said to be capable of landing at a speed of only 12½ m. p...
Since mechanically-minded Europeans go in much more heavily for theory and mathematics than mechanically-minded Americans, the Exposition's huge Palace of Discovery is full of French professors who have sacrificed their summer holidays to stand behind scientific apparatus of all sorts. They perform elaborately delicate experiments, eagerly...
This week at the Exposition less brainy sightseers had huge fun bargaining with native bazaar-keepers, sampling exotic perfumes and avidly whiffing strange smells on the long island in the Seine upon which France has strung like so many pearls her overseas colonies. Muddy, reeking with pungent coffee and spices...
Many U. S. travelers have known vaguely for years that somewhere in Paris stands a replica 20 ft. tall of the 152 ft. Statue of Liberty presented by France to the U. S. in 1886. Hitherto seen chiefly by bargemen on the Seine, the replica of Liberty, standing where it...