Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested audience was led last night on a detailed inspection tour of party politics as Murray Seasongood '00, former mayor of Cincinnati, talked informally on "Machine Politics and the Reformer" in Dunster House Common Room. Tracing the city from the 1884-1926 period, which Lincoln Steffins accurately depicted as "unbelievably corrupt," up to the present time, when it is generally conceded to be the "best governed city in the United States", Mr. Seasongood described the long struggle of the past twelve years as a constant warfare against party machinery and party patronage...
Literally dazzling to the eye, splendiferous in its costuming and setting, "The Great Waltz" made another stop in its countrywide tour to open a return engagement of two weeks at the Boston Opera House last night. A brilliant mixture of singing, dancing, lovemaking and fireworks makes the whole melange a Roman Holiday in the nineteenth century manner, staged with all the gaudiness of twentieth century America...
Emerging after seven months at Advance Base, Admiral Byrd came home to a hero's welcome, rested up and embarked on a lecture tour to pay off his expedition's $100,000 deficit. When the long tour ends in May, the Admiral, who, while changing trains in his blue uniform has sometimes been taken for a porter or stationmaster, will have told 1,250,000 people in 250 cities about the South Pole. It was during a lull in this tour that Hero Byrd again thought of peace. He publicly promised last summer to "start my work...
Driven by his chauffeur, accompanied at times by two other women and a 70-year-old named "Smitty" who called himself "St. John the Baptist," they toured around in a big automobile. Hotels accepted them as "St. John the Baptist & party of five," one room clerk noting on his register "a religious party on tour." "St. John the Revelator" introduced Miss Jewett to such Divine beliefs as that the Father could send a "vibration" from Harlem to Denver. Wrote she last week: "I felt a sudden chill. Everyone was pleased. They told me, 'that is Father Divine sending...
...wins out of four games was the best the varsity baseball team could garner from its annual southern tour. Prospects looked bright in the initial contest with George Washington as the Crimson rapped out 16 hits for a 15-3 win. Ed Ingalls pitched good early season ball, limiting the enemy the six blows...