Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Dr. James H. Breasted, had been seeking to persuade the Egyptians to return to its compromise agreement, was ignored by the government. Dr. Breasted has now withdrawn from the case entirely. Sir John Maxwell, acting for Countess Carnarvon, left Egypt in disgust. Carter sailed for an American lecture tour. The tomb has been closed, and no further action is expected before next Fall...
...Bertrand Russell, now on a lecture tour of the United States, describes the difficulties of travel for persons whose opinions have not the official sanction of the country visited. "In England," Mr. Russell writes in his book, "Free Thought and Official Propaganda" (Huebsch), "it is illegal to teach belief in the Christian religion. It is also illegal to teach what Christ taught on the subject of non-resistance. In America no one can enter the country without first solemnly declaring that he disbelieves in anarchism and polygamy, and, once inside, he must also disbelieve in communism. In Japan...
...Nations Covenant and of the Treaty of Versailles and bears his personal endorsement. Mr. Foley has taken sentences from stenographic minutes of the White House conference with the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, and thirty-seven addresses delivered by Mr. Wilson during his western tour in 1919 when the Treaty was before the Senate, and so arranged and combined them that they form a continuous text. To this have been appended, in full, the Covenant and two addresses he delivered before the Peace Conference at Paris, and official cablegrams containing suggestions later embodied in the Covenant, from former President...
...significance of the projected visit lies in the fact that only once before in the whole history of Japan has an Emperor's son ever left the shores of Japan to visit a foreign country. That was when Crown Prince Hirohito (now Regent) made his world tour...
Pavlowa is in the habit of reaping scintillant appreciations of this nature. She has just returned from a deliriously successful tour of the Near and Far East, and is again invading our cities with Oriental novelties, chiefly Russian, of course...