Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never practiced polygamy and men who had harems were socially in disfavor, despite the fact that the Sultans always had one. Public opinion in Turkey is against the harem. Polygamy is now bootleg." Dr. Sven V. Knudsen herded 304 U.S. schoolboys aboard the Hellig Olav, bound on a goodwill tour of Scandinavia. What Pilgrim Knudsen told friends at the pier, what he may reveal to awed Scandinavians, is this: "The boy of today is the man of tomorrow." Count Leo Tolstoi, venerable, charming son of the famed novelist, came on the De Grasse with two objects in view...
Their Majesties' present Afric tour was preluded when they left Antwerp some weeks ago on the steamer Thysville, but began in earnest as they landed at Boma, in the mouth of Mother Congo. The big black toe of Congoland was their objective-namely the city of Elizabethville, which lies 900 miles inland, at the very toe and tip of the Belgian Congo, just where it touches Great Britain's colony of Northern Rhodesia (so named after its exploiter, Cecil John Rhodes). Between Elizabethville and Port Franc-qui (named after the rehabilitator of Belgium's currency, former Finance...
...with the pomp of a state visit before the white Moon Mountains. Black buck Negroes and black buxom Negresses prostrated themselves, as was fitting, before His Majesty Albert I, King of the Belgians and of Belgian Congo Blackamoors-and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The white Sovereigns, complacent, were on tour through their Afric domains, which are larger in area than all Western Europe and contain almost as many Blackamoors as does...
Madame Rubinstein is among the most important, most fashionable of U. S. beauty specialists. In her bizarre, red and yellow shop in East 57th Street, Manhatten, she displays many a cosmetic product made of water lilies. To the skeptical she offers a tour of inspection at the Long Island factory. Here she would exhibit row on row of half-opened water lilies, kept fresh until the exact moment when their essence may be impounded into creams, powders, lipsticks. Less aesthetic visitors could feast their eyes on tubs of cucumbers, great bunches of parsley leaves. Madame Rubinstein is justly proud...
When the Rumanian Government of Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano had had two days, last week, in which to dissuade Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania from a second U. S. tour, the Famed Grandmama announced, through a lady-in-waiting, that: "Certain premature reports of Her Majesty's plans are totally unfounded...