Word: junketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wives, and they were returning from 16 days of talking shop, seeing the sights and spreading goodwill in Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Members of the Pan American Medical Association, they had chartered the Panama-Pacific liner S. S. Pennsylvania, turned their Fifth Scientific Congress into a junket...
When his engagement with Socialite Eileen Gillespie was broken, young John Jacob Astor III chose the abandoned wedding-day to start a world-junket with three former schoolmates. By last week he had arrived in Shanghai, where he spent most of his time staring moodily out of the window in his room. Badgered by reporters young Astor blurted out that he was "trying to forget," added: "I don't like to discuss it. What more can I say?" Left alone, he turned again to the window...
...innocent young girl, Betty Findon, is almost engaged to Colin Derwent, embryo barrister; but along comes dashing Philip Savilla, and persuades her to agree to go off with him on a sexual junket to Paris. Derwent, of course, knows that Savilla is a crashing cad, who lures women abroad to a horrible fate--just what this fate is never becomes quite clear. Obviously, he must save poor Betty from this awful monster; but how, he does not know until he sees himself in a dream killing Savilla and establishing his alibi by tampering with the clock, so that it will...
...That junket of McCooey's down to the White House was just to make it look as though he still has his finger in the pie," said a Quayle spokesman. "He is positively...
...World Revolution of the Proletariat." The issuing of such an order at such a time seemed to indicate a slip between the cogs of Dictator Josef Stalin's complex State machine. Last week that popular cog War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov had not yet returned from his junket to Angora where he congratulated Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha on the tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic (TIME, Nov. 6). Order No. 173 was therefore not signed by "Klim" but by fierce-bearded Vice-War Minister Jan Gamarnik, who looks like a world revolution all by himself. Had "Klim" been...