Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day no one took much notice when a quiet, middle-aged woman arrived on the Europa, calmly saw her luggage through customs and sped out to the Steinway factory to choose her own pianos for a cross-country tour starting this week in Hartford. She was Myra Hess who does not go in for publicizing herself like most musicians. She does not assume that anyone is interested in the fact that she grew up in an orthodox Jewish home in London, started playing the piano when she was five, stuck to it because for her there seemed no other...
...year-old fort which serves as the governor's mansion, Acting Governor Benjamin J. Horton was lunching with Deputy NRAdministrator Boaz Walton Long. NRAdministrator Long stepped to the window, took one look at the crowd and at the tack-strewn streets, decided to postpone his inspection tour of the island. Colonel Francis Riggs, chief of the Puerto Rican police, came bumping into San Juan from Rio Piedras with 23 punctures. "This is anarchy!" he cried...
Last year Glenn Cunningham ran practically every indoor or outdoor race he could find in the U. S. and Europe. He was beaten only twice, never in the mile, his best distance. On tour he carried his school books with him, studied hard enough to make good grades. He is 24, a senior, plans entering medical school or teaching physical education...
...story involves a girl who does imitations of movie stars, the discovery that a boy thought to be poor is, in reality, a wealthy heir, and a tour through the auto camps of America with Mr. Rogers at the helm of the car. The trenchant political observations of the former mayor of Beverly, break forth now and again, but it is to be hoped that on his next vacation from the radio Mr. Rogers will be cast in a production with something more stimulating than lazy good humor...
Lincoln Steffens, in an interview with the devil, performs an amusing tour de force by identifying satan with that above all things which Mr. Steffens hates--the instinct of conservatism, the blind lust to save things which we do not understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself...