Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reputedly the gift of Bobby Jones), several cases of bright green beer (artificially colored, brewed in Edinburgh), H. R. H. Edward of Wales and Prince George flew to Paris, there entrained for Santander, Spain, where they boarded the S. S. Oropesa for Bermuda, first stop before their whirlwind tour of Latin America. Their frank effort: to drum up more trade for British manufacturers...
Bearing down on Bermuda too was the British Atlantic Fleet led by the world's mightiest battleships, Nelson and Rodney, whose maneuvers in West Indian waters just happen to coincide with the Princes' tour. Operating from three British naval bases in American waters, Bermuda, Jamaica and Barbados, at least one important British ship will call at each of Britain's tiny American islands: Trinidad, Dominica, Antigua, St. Kitts, Tobagov...
...great & virtuous Yen Hsi-shan, long "model Governor" of Shansi Province, now defeated, selfexiled. Some of the "attendants" said that Marshal Yen yearns to tour first Japan, next the U. S., will shortly do so. Others said he will settle down at Beppu, Japan's Karlsbad, lately the refuge of that other Chinese exile, notorious Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, so brazen that he calls his attendants "concubines" and worse (TIME...
...expected something stupendous. I acted in it just as I do in life, and as I am inclined to be not exactly sad, but rather serious, people thought that I could not be jolly. Of course I can smile, and that is one reason why I am taking this tour, although it is really a vacation. Incidentally, in Spain and Ireland the picture was particularly popular as they like my quiet, heart-to-heart way better than the more raucous stuff...
...view of Mr. Bingham's public announcement of Harvard's willingness to negotiate, the decision now rests solely with the Princeton board of athletic control. Owing to Dr. Kennedy's absence on a speaking tour through the middle West, no action of an official nature can be expected until early February; therefore, further agitation from undergraduates is unnecessary and pointless. However, the ground has been prepared for resumption, the evidence has been amassed to show that students at both universities are in favor of resumption, and the way is clear. We wait the return of Dr. Kennedy...