Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music's anaesthetic effect must have made it particularly popular in Europe during the period between the wars. France had its stringed Hot Club, and Hugues Pannassie learned to speak English with a Louisiana accent. In his biography, "Swing That Music," Louis Armstrong refers to his 1934 Continental tour glowingly; "everybody was mighty nice to me and made me fell right away I was with friends. A lot of the musicians asked me if it wasn't true that when I hit my high C's on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. They had not thought...
Halfway through his recently completed eight-month tour of Europe, Associate Editor and Foreign News Writer Sam Welles received the following cable from his boss, TIME's Foreign News Editor Max Ways...
...Jake Kramer, U.S. Davis Cupper and the world's foremost amateur tennis player, turned professional (for a $50,000 guarantee). He will face Pro Champ Bobby Riggs in Madison Square Garden Dec. 26. Also expected to jump the amateur ranks, for second billing on the Kramer-Riggs tour: rambunctious Pancho Segura and Australia's singles champ and Davis Cupper, Dinny Pails...
...trip through the Southland testing the effectiveness of the Supreme Court's ban on Jim Crow interstate travel. Their story of arrests and consistent fear of the lynch mob will be told to the College tonight at 8 o'clock by Nathan Wright, a Negro member of the tour, in Reed Hall of the Episcopal Seminary on Brattle Street...
Almost everyone gave credit for the hit to Barrault-but not quite everyone. Snapped Playwright Gide: "I am astonished at the magnificent tour de force I have accomplished...