Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name. She adopted the grand manner without reservation, kept a houseful of servants, a car and a chauffeur when that luxury was uncommon. In her grandiose moods it was nothing for her to spend $700 for an evening dress, or to buy a dozen hats on one shopping tour. But she was just as likely to closet herself, spend hours reading her Bible or writing voluminous letters crammed with Biblical quotations. On frequent occasions she would stride into the kitchen, undertake to cook a meal on which she would spend as much dramatic energy as if she were singing some...
With his wife and two sons. Dr. Compton lives in Chicago in a big brick house filled with souvenirs of their world tour. He does not know the taste of hard liquor, almost never smokes, always offers a cigaret to women visitors. He plays such a bang-up game of tennis that he sometimes has a hard time finding worthy opponents. Several times a month he puts in an evening of mandolin-playing with three friends. When his graduate students have finished an examination, he likes to dine them and take them to the theatre...
...year-old conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, who not many years ago was fiddling obscurely in Manhattan's Capitol Theatre. Fresh from Hungary, where his dentist-father had pushed him as a prodigy, he had been lured to the U. S. by a promise of a concert tour, only to have his manager fail him. Other men's misfortunes led to his swift rise as a conductor. The leader at the Capitol was taken suddenly ill one day; within a few hours the young violinist stepped into his place. Four years ago Arturo Toscanini was unable to keep...
Exuberantly the three make their way through England, recruiting from a London town-house Dennie Moore, a lady's maid with stage ambitions. They buy a van, tour the English coast towns, doing music-hall turns until they encounter Brian Aherne, an artist with whom Sylvia Scarlett falls in love. One day on the beach she slips out of her male attire, steals the dress of a girl in swimming, goes up to his house. What follows is one of those scenes which Miss Hepburn plays with her best intuition,, a scene in which a woman who has played...
Groups living in France include in their program for the latter half of the summer a trip to Geneva, a week's bicycling tour of the chatean country, and two weeks of camping in the Hautes Alpes. Plans for next summer's Spanish group include three weeks of climbing in the Pyrenees...