Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time since its completion newsmen and photographers were last week permitted to pass through the Marine guard, enter the Hoover camp on a professional tour of inspection. On a plateau 2,500 ft. up in the mountains, they found scenes of lyric wilderness. They heard waterfalls that lulled the President to sleep (his own description), inspected the huge living room with its 51-ton stone fireplace, marveled at the urban conveniences in such a rustic setting...
Miss Cogswell and her "Mabel" (Mrs. Ingalls) were in Berlin when a party of 99 U. S. notables passed through en route to Moscow on a tour arranged by the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Next day Socialite Cogswell and Morgan-Niece Ingalls decided that they wanted to tour Russia too, hopped onto a sleeping car to catch up and join the U. S. party...
...weeks of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce tour was as much as adventurous Miss Cogswell and loyal Mrs. Ingalls could stand. Having startled fellow passengers and many a Volga boatman by appearing on the hot deck of a river steamer in lounging pajamas, they left the party at Tiflis in the Caucasus, announced their intention of climbing Mount Ararat "to look for traces of Noah...
...fellow "49ers" first heard he won and lifted him to their shoulders, Winner Huston was the center of attention. It was learned that he was interested in marine biology, did not smoke, had never been a Boy Scout. When the boys boarded the Mayor's yacht Macom for a tour of Manhattan, reporters surged around Winner Huston, confident of a "chatty" interview that would tickle their public. They were disappointed and commented on the Lindberghian attitude he maintained toward them. Asked his answer to one part of the test he calmly said, "You may not ask me that question...
...moderate-priced health resort is Bernard Mannes Baruch, Manhattan financier-philanthropist. His father, Dr. Simon B. Baruch of Camden, S. C., was one of the first to recognize Saratoga water's medicinal value. Last week Commissioner Baruch and a committee of U. S. physicians began a study tour of the spas of Germany, beginning at Bad Kissingen, Bavaria...