Word: hikers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty miles farther on, when the Mercedes reached the hikers' village, Gentle Adolf alighted with them. While gawking peasants gaped, he stripped off his first overcoat, then his second, gave each hiker an overcoat and five marks...
...Francisco reporters, John Wade Gordon, 21, said that he was hitchhiking on a California highway, got picked up by a shiny automobile whizzing by. Occupant of the automobile was Herbert Clark Hoover, who speedily learned that Hitch-hiker Gordon, a jobless mechanic, was a relative of onetime Governor Earl Brewer of Mississippi. Said Hitch-hiker Gordon: "He bought me a meal when we got to the Sausalito Ferry, and then he said: 'Well, son, I'm going to take a chance on you. You have an honest face. I'll give you a little money...
Woman's Shaving Tackle. Not forgetting its pedestrian readers the Guardian reported: "The most striking exhibit, from the hiker's point of view, is an 'ultra-lightweight week-end kit,' comprising rucksack, sleeping-bag, tent, a four-peg coat-hanger, a petrol-stove, frypan, water-bucket, a plate, cup, receptacles for food and drink, knife, spoon and fork, and electric torch, a pair of shoes, a tent pole, swimming suit, complete change of clothes, towels, soap, facecloth, shaving tackle, and toothbrush, the whole weighing slightly over ten and a half pounds...
...This outfit was designed and tested by a woman hiker, who found that by means of it she was able to do a fortnight's tramping in the Austrian Alps without any additional equipment. A special feature of the outfit is the tin-opener, which has been especially constructed so that it leaves no rough edges on the tin. which may afterwards be used as an extra saucepan. The tent pole can also be used as a walking-stick...
...Paramount and took Miss Dietrich with him when the story was rewritten, later returned to direct her in it. Von Sternberg, who has repeatedly denied being born Joe Stern in Brooklyn, opens with a sylvan swimming scene in Germany's Black Forest (300 miles from Berlin) where U. S. hikers surprise Berlin actresses off for the afternoon. One hiker (Herbert Marshall) marries Marlene Dietrich, takes her to the U. S. They have a child. Marshall contracts radium poisoning in his scientific research. To send him to a Dresden doctor, Marlene returns to cabaret work, lets a lisping politician (Gary Grant...