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Word: toured (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidents get college degrees without studying for them. Not so for President's sons. Allan Hoover will not graduate with his class at Stanford University this month. Reason: he lost five scholastic months accompanying his father during the campaign and South American tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Visitations | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Edward Gordon Craig, famed British stage designer, son of the late Actress Ellen Terry, announced last week that next fall he would make an extensive U. S. lecture tour. His last U. S. visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Harry Elstner Talbott, dowager of Dayton, Ohio, energetic patroness-manager of Dayton's famed Westminster Choir, now on European concert tour ,TIME, March 25), arose from her chair ast week in Prague to reply to a toast which Prague Mayor Baxa had drunk to he choir in clear Czechoslovakian wine. Said she: "We are patriotic Americans. We don't drink, but thank you just the same." The Westminster Choir-singers are not supposed to use tobacco, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: may 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...choir boys and a "party of substantial men" must go to St. Clement Danes Church and hear a sermon on the text: "Cursed be he that transgresseth the bounds and doles of his neighbor." Then, led by the rector, the choir boys and the "substantial men" must make a tour of the parish boundaries. In order that they shall never forget just where the boundaries are, the Virgin Queen decreed that the substantial men must soundly bump the heads of the choir boys against each boundary mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ascension Bumps | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...still on Park Avenue. His galleries have never been open to the public, though once he took his collections en a nationwide, personally-conducted exhibition-tour. Post-War conditions injured the Hamilton Philippine interests. From time to time lately some painting has been sold. But the Hamilton collection remains among the nation's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Manhattan's Hamilton | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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