Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enter this fight as a Dry and you can spell it out in capital letters. DRY. . . . There will be two weeks' work on my lecture tour to be completed. In the interval there will be little campaigning done. After that there will be plenty. . . . The baby was just born. It is a Pinchot-Marine Corps baby...
Jauntily, after the miscarriage of his plans, Don Alfonso XIII left Paris for a tour of the Holy Land. "This is comic beyond belief!" he chuckled in Jerusalem when correspondents asked if he had signed the manifesto. "This is what I should call taking my name in vain...
...particular bit of action that every audience waits for is the transformation from Jekyll to Hyde. It is done here in close-up, in full sight of the camera. The director has managed a smooth bit of lap-dissolving, a technical tour-deforce. But he has not been as effective or imaginative as Mr. Barrymore, who simply put his hands up before his face and slowly drew them down again to reveal changed features. Again, Mr. March has authority from Stevenson to make some manner of noise during the transformation scene, which involved "the most racking pains . . . a grinding...
...meeting held last night at Phillips Brooks House eight members of the University Debating Council were selected to represent Harvard against colleges in Pennsylvania during the spring vacation when the Harvard speakers make their annual trip. On their tour the Crimson debaters will meet Villa Nova College and Franklin and Marshall College, both of which are located in the vicinity of Philadelphia...
...lore, the author's thoughts, like his camels, found food scanty in the sands. Written in a style reminiscent of Charles M. Doughty's masterpiece. Tourist Thomas' magnificently produced book (compared with Travels in Arabia Desertary} seems the record of a somewhat barren scientific tour de force...