Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camp morale. We who wear the cross try to "woo" the boys into our congregation by giving them, not baloney or piffle, but something practical, helpful and inspiring?something which they can use in their everyday life. I have received many letters from boys who have finished their "tour" with the C. C. C. telling me how much they miss the church services. Some of these boys were "non-churchgoers" before enrolling. Most of the chaplains I know try to make their sermons so interesting and their church services so attractive that the boys hate to stay away. They feel...
...help North Americans, and especially Albertans, embrace Social Credit, Canterbury's tall Dean will make a seven-week whirlwind U. S.-Canadian speaking tour, then whisk home to snug England...
...saxophone was more than he could stand, he went to Manhattan, entered the Art Students' League. There he became an ardent pupil and disciple of Kenneth Hayes Miller, and a faithful follower of the painter who inspired Instructor Miller, Peter Paul Rubens. In Europe Laning had made a Rubens tour through Paris, Holland, Belgium, Spain, the result of which is obvious in all his work. Critics consider him one of the more promising of young muralists, hope he will acquire a little of Rubens' gusto for humanity as well as his sense of form and color...
...Riverside Drive late one rainy night, an indignant Manhattan policeman hammered on the trailer door, woke up North Carolina's Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, his campaign manager and his Negro cook & chauffeur. Ordered the policeman: "Move on." Sleepy Senator Reynolds, who is trying to prove that he can tour 9,000 miles of the U. S. at a cost of $100 per person, climbed out, drove to another street. Next morning a garageman reported that Senator Reynolds & friends, annoyed by the patter of rain on their roof, had left in a taxicab, spent the night at a hotel. "We spent...
...this time, a small goitre, which she called her "potato," had made its appearance on her throat, severely cutting down her respiration. However, she started on a European tour, reduced her price to $2,200. She had her usual successes in London and Prague but in Budapest one night an audience astonished and dismayed her by booing and catcalling her Violetta in La Traviata. To newshawks she presently explained that she had caught a cold, announced that she could not buck Europe s prejudice against her high prices, canceled the rest of her tour. Since then, indefatigably carrying...