Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diametrically unlike the ordinary European sight-seeing tour, the Experiment in International Living operates on a strictly non-profit basis and aims to instill in American students a closer knowledge and appreciation of European life and customs...
United Press. Sent on a tour from Maine to the Pacific, United Pressman Lyle C. Wilson gave it as his expert opinion that President Roosevelt would not carry any New England state next year, has an even chance from New York to the Mississippi River, is strongest in the West...
When, in San Francisco last fortnight, Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa learned he could make a U. S. lecture tour only if accompanied by a doctor or nurse to prevent his spreading trachoma (TIME, Dec. 30), Japan's No. 1 Christian speedily found a suitable attendant. On furlough from the American Baptist Mission in Swatow, Kwangtung, China was Dr. Velva Violet Brown, .a 44-year-old surgeon. Dr. Kagawa and his portly, solicitous companion chartered a plane for Amarillo, Tex. In the following seven days they visited Lubbock. Tex., Norman, Okla., Oklahoma City, Springfield, Mo., Memphis, Indianapolis. Getting used...
...Manhattan last week Trudi Schoop and her 22 dancers began their first U. S. tour, which will take them through the Midwest to the Pacific Coast. Her first ballet was called Want Ads. Curtain went up on a motley crowd rustling through newspapers. When a young girl was jilted, she mounted a platform, intoned "For sale: brand new wedding gown, never been worn." More amusing was the scene wherein a chorus director was driven to distraction by a particularly inept performer who subsequently advertised herself as a "well trained, highly musical danseuse, accidentally still disengaged." Trudi Schoop appeared first...
...which she will report her daily doings "serious or humorous, important or trivial." Last week she undertook to give her female Press conference a first-hand view of living conditions in the White House by escorting newswomen through the service quarters, rebuilt as a WPA project last summer. The tour took nearly an hour. Proudly exhibited were: 1) the servants' dining room, radiant in white and pale green, containing a long table set with 14 places: 2) the fireplace where Presidents had their food cooked a century ago; 3) the office of White House Bookkeeper Henry F. Nesbitt...