Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...startling broadbrimmed "wideawake" hat, the two Princes stepped ashore, posed for photographs, shook hands with Acting Governor Edward W. Evans and his staff, then boarded a tender and putt-putted to the swanky Mid-Ocean Club at Tuckerstown. The Earl of Chester celebrated the beginning of his trade tour by playing golf with Bermuda's leading tradesman, Eldon Trimingham of Trimingham Bros. (clothing store), famed yachtsman and Bermudian socialite. It was a close match. H. R. H. canceled an official luncheon, hastily gobbled sandwiches in order to finish the round before his reception at Government House. On the 17th...
...Princeton N. J. last week, Charles Augustus Lindbergh announced that his widely announced tour of South America would be postponed for several months. Reason: lest it be construed he was going as a rival attraction...
Like the great actress Eleonora Duse, the great dancer Anna Pavlova last week died in a hotel, on tour, in a strange country.* In France, near Dijon, a railroad accident kept her waiting for hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to dance there, influenza had developed, also pleurisy. Death came swiftly, in three days. Operations and injections were useless. Pavlova's heart was weak. On the third day she roused from a coma and spoke to Victor Dandre, her husband and accompanist. She thought she was herself again, high...
Poor in point of dollars & cents, the Chicago Civic Opera's home season ended last week and its annual tour began. Two special trains and 18 baggage cars carried 300 souls and a million-dollar equipment to Boston, where big Emma Redell of Baltimore sang Elsa in the opening performance of Lohengrin. To follow were The Jewels of the Madonna, Die Meistersinger, La Bohème and de Falla's ballet L'Amour Sorcier, Pelléas et Mélisande, Die Walküre, Don Giovanni, The Masked Ball, Tristan und Isolde...
...following day, E. A. Whitney '17, assistant professor of the Department of History and Literature, and master-elect of Kirkland House, will open the second middlewestern tour with a talk at the Harvard Club of Buffalo...