Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week President Hoover got a new naval aide. Captain Charles Russell Train, after a two-year tour of duty at the White House, was transferred to the Naval War College. From command of the U. S. S. Northampton Captain Walter N. Vernou was summoned to the President's side...
Aboard the ship Sailor Cowart spurned spirits of ammonia. Said he: "Gimme something to eat." He set off immediately on a curiosity tour of the Akron. After the ship was successfully moored later that evening, Sailor Cowart stubbornly refused to tell his story to reporters, despite the friendly coaxing of Commander Rosendahl. A welterweight boxer out for the All-Navy championship, he said: "I'll have to see my manager before I talk." His manager sold the story to the highest bidder, Hearst's Universal Service...
Plans for the coming year include presentations in Boston, New York, Wellesley, and Northampton, besides three performances in Cambridge. The tour will take place shortly before the Spring vacation. James Boyle, a well-known musical-comedy producer and director of theatrical troups in New York, who has drilled the Pudding shows for the past ten years, has been secured as director for next season...
Here England's prize editor was allotted the task of serving, unassisted, as kitchen-boy in a kitchen feeding 50 or 60 people. In 1923 he accompanied Gurdjieff, with some 40 other pupils, on a tour of the U. S. In 1924 he was assigned the task of spreading the Gurdjieff ideas in America. Known by his editorial reputation to a few people in New York, Gurdjieffite Orage soon proselytized scores of the intelligentsia. Americans began to flock to Fontainebleau. But in 1924 an automobile accident almost killed Gurdjieff; he was forced to discontinue the activities of his Institute...
...search of music, ... a certain warmth of welcome, and museums with clean pictures, in all of which France is poor," four intelligentsiacs last summer deserted Paris to tour central Europe in an automobile. Novelist Wescott was along and, like a good intelligentsiac, kept his head rambling with the car. As the landscape from Paris to Bamberg flits before his eyes, thoughts on literature, religion, mankind-in-general flit behind. These he sets down deferentially "in fear and trembling" at generalizing on such knotty themes...