Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes more experience than can be gained as a member of a good-will tour meeting city fathers and making speeches at banquets to get beyond the superficial aspects of any environment. A book which bites deep into the core of a country's spirit must be written by a man with insight and sympathy, and, above all, long familiarity with his subject. W. H. Hudson lived in Patagonia as a child and knew the Pampas through and through, even if Guedalla does accuse him of making it a vast bird sanctuary. Lafcadio Hearn knew Japan in the same...
...able dramatist, a senile jokester, or a great man. He leaves that nation with an unmistakably altered following, most of whom are inclined to soften the edges of their criticism and to swell the songs of their praise. For whatever else may have been established by Mr. Shaw's tour, the circumstance of his mortality seems now indisputable, and, in his own words, "the persecution cannot be for much longer...
Gareth Jones, a serious young man with glasses, arrived in Berlin last week after a three-week tour of the Ukraine. He had a dreadful tale to tell, and Berlin correspondents listened politely because serious Mr. Jones was once a private secretary to David Lloyd George, and before making his trip to the Ukraine he spent many a long hour learning to speak Russian-far more fluently than most Russian correspondents. Said...
Lord Clydesdale to drive the 400 twisty-laned miles between Oxford and Dungavel in one day. He first took up flying after his 1924 round-the-world boxing tour with Eddie Eagan...
Last December Writer Shaw squinted happily at a crowd in a London railway station, declared, "I am really going away because I want to get away from you," and set off on a world tour aboard the Empress of Britain. Since then the world's editors have received-and printed-one, two or three despatches on Shaw each week...