Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only four of the more than 50 pavilions were ready-the German, Russian, Belgian, Italian-and there was much caustic criticism because the President had had to make his tour of the Exposition by boat to avoid "holes in the ground and the mess of construction." Jean Frenchman, however, had little cause to grumble at the delay. Because the turnstiles could not be erected in time, everybody was let in free...
Members of the Japanese Economic Delegation who are arriving in Boston this morning will come here to make a tour of the University. They will be conducted by Dean Chase and Jerome D. Greene '96, ex-Tercentenary magnate...
General Booth had cut short a world tour, hastened from the Orient to London. Soon Commissioner Mapp took to his bed with high blood pressure, and his superior caused it to be announced that he was taking an extended furlough because of ill health. Commissioner Mapp, however, as if calling a bluff, demanded, under Army rules, a hearing before a secret court of inquiry. The five-officer court unanimously convicted Commissioner Mapp of whatever charges General Booth had brought against him. and gossips said that those charges involved "a woman." Indignant Commissioner Mapp announced he would sue for defamation...
...have done such a thing, and fewer have lived to tell the tale, but many must have imagined themselves in such a terrifying predicament. With as much calm authority as though he had fallen overboard himself, Herbert Clyde Lewis tells just what it feels like. His hair-raising little tour de force is the more effective for being so quietly, matter-of-factly written...
...Officer Hugh Anderson (Ivan Brandt) on the way to the U. S. Believing malicious gossip, she jilts Officer Anderson on arrival, rebounds into the arms of Tenor Curti, whom she meets after finding his motherless son (Richard Gofe) in the hotel corridor. Married, they go off on a world tour which gives opportunity for a sound montage of excerpts from nine of the great operas. In London comes the inevitable second encounter with First Officer Anderson...