Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This from one whose capital is increasing $2,000 per day or thereabouts struck the merriest possible note in Scotland. Cheerfully the King, in sleek long coat and bowler, set out to repeat in Glasgow slums the sort of famed house-to-house tour he made as Edward of Wales through the bleak, starveling Welsh collieries and "Depressed Areas...
...board to which Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt has given the $90,000 proceeds of her radio talks. Mrs. Roosevelt will help the campaign when it opens on April 21 by joining in a radio program with its star speaker, stubble-cheeked old George Lansbury, British Laborite, who will tour 20 U. S. cities during April and May. Other campaign plans: speaking tours by teams of pacifists; Peace Caravans of Youths; a monster demonstration of peace workers in Washington on the eve of the opening of Congress next year...
...usual, this year the team will make a tour south during the Easter recess. In addition to Fordham, scheduled opposition will be provided by Dickinson, Pennsylvania, and on Saturday, April 4, Temple...
...simple and though unevenly paced it has its moments. A quiet, solid little tourists home is thrown into an uproar of delicious confusion when the unexpected guest sweeps in the alluring form of Carole Arden, the luscious temptress of the silver screen. Miss Arden seems to be on a tour of personal appearances which has been interrupted by the breakdown of her ivory Issota...
...class by themselves. Among English women writers, Rebecca West (Cecily Fairfield Andrews) has ranked creditably. As a journalist of parts, she has written criticism and comment that was some-times brilliant, always flashy; often sensible but always dogmatic. Her third novel, Harriet Hume, was a clever tour de force whose artificiality distracted attention from its able workmanship. Last week she published a book that swept all critical hats off. The Thinking Reed, in spite of its tasteless title, immediately took its deserved place among the best novels in the short memory of modern man. Rebecca West had lost none...