Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books in fruitful collaboration. They alone know why his heroes are so often scientists, and even why the love lives of these scientists-in-fiction are so disconcertingly unscientific. They are a dry, shrewd pair, les freres Boex. Last week the elder brother returned to Paris from a tour of the U. S. His comments...
Cities between Boston and St. Louis will for the next ten weeks be visited by the first "flying cigar store," unless it, the much-traveled Sikorsky biplane S-29,* specially tricked out and loaded by the United Cigar Stores Co., has further misfortune. Last week, trying to start its tour from Curtiss Field, L. I., it bowled into a smaller ship obscured by dust on the field, delaying its departure four days. On board were eight persons including skipper and wife, salesmen, mechanics...
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York returned last week from their Australian tour (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.), in the course of which they inaugurated the new Federal Capital of Australia at Canberra (TIME, May 16), and circumnavigated the globe...
...land of China is so troubled and war-torn that only one prominent Occidental is known to have traveled there extensively within the present year. This gentleman is U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. He completed last week a tour which his influence and his wealth have enabled him to push far into the interior. Moreover, Mr. Bingham has visited and talked with all the principal Chinese leaders at the three chief seats of Chinese government: Peking, Nanking, Hankow. When the Senator emerged at Shanghai last week his mind held a panoramic picture of China in which each element...
...ablest creation. He personally liked better his now-forgotten "Old Dan Tucker." Emmett, runaway son of a blacksmith, sang and banjoed in the country's earliest traveling minstrel quartets, barnstorming from hall to hall with striped calico shirts, ruffled sleeves, flaring collars. One Saturday night, on tour, his minstrel leader asked him to compose a new "walk around" (stage march) for use the next day. Emmett frowned at the hurry order, went to his hotel, rummaged out of his trunk the rough draft of a tune he had thought up some years before. The words for the tune...