Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faze Wall Street's Forrestal. There is a story that he once sent his two sons, aged six and eight, on a tour of Europe by themselves, and when they telephoned him in London that they were having passport trouble in Paris, casually told them to join him as soon as they had straightened it out. He makes a fetish of self-reliance...
...members of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra in their off hours. On the top floor of his factory, he rehearsed them in musical bonbons by Johann Strauss and Offenbach, and piped both the sweet and sour notes to the candy kitchens below. Then he took his Pops Orchestra on a tour of Army & Navy hospitals, paying out $1,200 for each concert...
...educated "at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School and on the staffs of various newspapers." The first of these was the Bootle Times in Lancashire. When he tried Fleet Street, he couldn't get a job. So he bought a horse and greengrocer's cart, started to tour England, writing free-lance stories. These led eventually to a job on the Sunday Express. A piece he wrote about Sculptor Jacob Epstein caught Beaverbrook's eye. With typical Beaver whimsey, the boss made Williams a financial writer...
...seen for nine years; that night he dined with her, his brother the King and his sister the Princess Royal. Next day he visited the King for a 2½-hour heart-to-heart. Getting back in stride, he unlimbered his golf clubs, and made a tour of East End bombed areas...
Banker Giannini has always said he would quit when his bank became the world's greatest. But last week A. P., who had formally "retired" again last spring, showed no signs of quitting. Instead, he was off on a three-month tour of Europe to see about some foreign loans...