Word: toured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus spoke Bruce Lockhart, noted British author, journalist, Foreign Office observer, and "agent," as he was interviewed yesterday at the University Club. The author of "British Agent" has been in the United States ten weeks on a lecture tour and will leave shortly for England to take over a diplomatic post--if war breaks out in Europe...
...After the stroke that paralyzed Woodrow Wilson's left side, ended his nationwide speaking tour for the League, left him an invalid for the rest of his life, he was visited by a Senate subcommittee, ostensibly to discuss a Mexican treaty, actually to decide on his fitness to continue in office. Leader was New Mexico's Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, who entered the room "looking like a regular Uriah Heap, 'washing his hands with invisible soap in imperceptible water.' " Said Senator Fall: "Well, Mr. President, we have all been praying for you." Said the President...
...Angeles' few major contributions to the cinema industry's personnel. Son of a sports promoter named Thomas ("Uncle Tom") McCarey, he went to U. S. C., studied law, played on the rugby team. After college, Leo McCarey tried work in a San Francisco law office, quit to tour the Orpheum circuit as a boxer, did pick-&-shovel work in Montana mines, returned to Hollywood, where a chance meeting with Director Tod Browning got him into the cinema industry. That was in 1918. Two years later, McCarey got a job as gag man and writer for Hal Roach which...
Taking the line that both Canada and Australia desired to be independent, the barnstorming men from "down under," who have debated 52 American and Canadian colleges in the course of their tour, claimed that the word Empire was a contradiction in terms and had been greatly weakened by the abdication of popular Edward VIII...
Omitting such a famous scene as Falstaff shamming dead, such a famous character as Owen Glendower, such a famous speech as Henry IV's expostulation to sleep ("Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"), Five Kings "covers" Shakespeare as a two-day Cook's Tour would cover England...