Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clemenceau made the American Field Service Association the beneficiary of the proceeds of his lecture tour in America. The officers of the association are now endeavoring to supplement M. Clemenceau's contribution by a sum which will enable two fellowships to be established in perpetuity to be known as Georges Clemenceau Fellowships, one to send an American student to France and the other to bring a French student to the United States. Their goal is to raise $600,000 for the permanent endowment of fellowships...
Prince Gelasio Caetani, Mussolini's ambassador at Washington, plans an April tour of the United States. In his youth he was a practicing mining engineer in several Western states, where he has many friends...
...hates. When he refuses a job as Deputy Director for the South Coast, because he sees the home defense force as no more than an instrument of capitalistic tyranny, Joyce calls him a traitor and leaves him in disgust. The disgust is largely mutual. Bertram goes on a tour through Europe-representing a liberal weekly-and the plot stands still for a good many pages of observation. Further developments are an attack of typhus for Bertram, the convenient death of the man whom Joyce had come to love and he to hate, and a sweetly satisfactory ending. Joyce comes back...
...University of Southern California has just conferred upon the famous Pole an honorary degree of legal science, presumably in celebration of his experiences as the Prime Minister of his native country. But, laws and premiership notwithstanding, Paderewski remains the ideal figure of a musician. During his present American tour he is seen in his most characteristic guise not so much in the formal parts of his program as in impromptu encores. During the applause after his last announced number, the lights on the stage go out, and in the shadow Paderewski takes his place at the piano. He plays simply...
Arrangements for the tour were completed by Raymond F. Schindler, George Gordon Battle, Frank Waterman of the fountain pen company, and other New York lawyers and business...