Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murray Bay, Quebec, decorous Senator Robert A. Taft, who would soon tour the West to learn how he looked to them out there as a presidential candidate, took off his coat, set a vacationist's hat squarely on his head, turned up his trouser cuffs, and did his earnest best (for photographers) to look like a happy-go-lucky golfer...
...Louis Cardinal in prewar days, easy-swinging Harry Walker was known chiefly as the promising kid brother of Dixie, the "People's Cherce" of Brooklyn. Back with the Cards last year after a tour of combat duty in Europe, he was used sparingly by Manager Eddie Dyer and had a poor year except for some timely World's Series hitting. This season he got off to a bad start and the Cardinals traded him to the Phillies. Ben Chapman made him a regular, and Harry immediately began to hit as he had never hit before...
...Toro, the bewildered victim, is nominally "owned" by a lewd fat man, Vince Vanneman, who fixes every one of his fights on a coast-to-coast tour that Eddie promotes into a triumphal march. Nick, the powerful and deadly racketeer who actually owns El Toro as he owns Eddie, also owns the aging heavyweight champion, Gus Lennert. Gus is soon to retire, after drawing one big purse for getting massacred by the challenger, Buddy Stein, and another for doing a nose dive before El Toro. Nick has all the elements nicely calculated except his wife, Ruby, a ladylike tramp...
Henry C. Usborne, placed on Parliament's back benches by his constituency of Acock's Green, Birmingham, will be making a tour of the United States next fall to promote a movement for world federal government. He is also making arrangements to talk at the National Press Club in Washington and the Overseas Press Club in New York City...
Last week Sébille was making a lecture tour of some Belgian resorts, where he preached intimatism to eager listeners. Said he: "Between speeches I found the time to become half of a couple...