Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chateauguay, about 90 Witnesses spread out on a door-to-door tour, handed out their literature, delivered their standard anti-Catholic sermons. By the time they gathered for a meeting in Witness R. W. Weaner's yard, a mob of 1,000 men, women & children had a truck filled with rotten vegetables ready. The Witnesses were pelted. Those who resisted were beaten. Finally the crowd set up two fire sirens 25 feet from where Witness J. R. Dufour was lecturing, turned them on full blast and drowned him out. Fifteen Witnesses were arrested (for distributing circulars without a license...
...even-voiced, levelheaded Charles Collingwood got ready to return from Europe for a lecture tour...
Andrew Jackson Higgins, colorful New Orleans boat builder (PTs and landing craft) who toils and talks at fever heat, returned from a Pacific tour to announce a two-man crusade (with Admiral Nimitz) to get American men into cooler and fewer clothes. "First thing I did after leaving Honolulu," he said, "was to take off my tie, open the top two buttons of my shirt, and chop my pants off above the knee...
...Kyser, 40, drawling, corny Professor of Musical Knowledge, just back from a tour of the South Pacific, told the press he was through with radio. Said he: "I'm just so doggone tired. All I want to do is go back to Rocky Mount, N.C., and sit around with my 83-year-old mother and spit and whittle." His sponsor, American Tobacco Co., tartly reminded him that his radio show still has 26 months to run, hinted at a suit for breach of contract if he tried to quit. The Professor decided...
...half-million dollars to sing eleven songs for a cinematic bit of Irish moonshine called Song O' My Heart. But in 1938 he retired, and only sang twice in public after that. Once was at his son's wedding in 1941. Last year, he started a tour for the British Red Cross, was told by his doctor to stop...