Word: hosteling
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High on a hill above the hurrying Kialing River, far enough outside Chungking town to be safe from air raids, sits the new Visitor's Hostel-a guest house to accommodate the steady stream of foreigners passing through the capital. On New Year's Eve, China's stocky, genteel, old-style Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. Rung gave a party there for the city's cosmopolite society-foreign diplomats, newspapermen, missionaries, native officials. The guests grew mellow on mild-tasting, brain-sieging Yellow Wine...
...concessions, threatening, via his controlled German press, to hurl his army against Czechoslovakia "within 48 hours," unless Prague immediately went beyond the concessions already made. At this the Prime Minister promptly balked. With the River Rhine running between the Petersberg, hotel of the Britons, and the Dreesen, a favorite hostel at which the German Dictator was stopping for the 68th time, Neville Chamberlain began exchanging stiff, formal diplomatic notes with the Führer-the kind of thing that gets published after war begins in a British Blue Book, a German White Book. Each note was carried ceremoniously in diplomatic...
They're here. Newspaper readers outside the city read about the impressive display with thrills of patriotic pride. New York merchants and hostel keepers warm to an inflow of money. Seven million New York civilians, now living in a state of joyous excitement, will be glad when the invaders go, for military shows are still so rare in this country as to be terrifying...
...first meeting of the recently formed Youth Hostel Association, Chairman George S. Viereck, Jr. '39 greeted the twenty odd new members, announcing that the purpose of the club is to promote interest in the Youth Hostel movement in this country. European countries have done much to encourage this type of organization...
Bikers, hikers, foreign and domestic travellers are invited to attend a meeting of the Youth Hostel Club in Kirkland J-42 at 8 o'clock tonight. Harvard members and Harvard men who wish to join will attend...