Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...save General Wells the embarrassment of giving an order to General Summerall, his superior in rank, that President Coolidge, who suddenly felt and announced a desire to see General Summerall, sent personally for General Summerall, with a directness that seemed almost peremptory. The General cut short his inspection tour and started for Washington. At the White House, no direct evidence could be discovered that the President was conscious of what the General had said about Army housing. It was explained, simply, that the President wanted to talk with his Chief of Staff about Army appropriations in the 1928 budget...
Said Tenor Gigli, on tour, in Winnipeg, Man.: "I met the Baroness while in Berlin last summer and our acquaintance developed into strong friendship...
...Verdi's La Traviata, burlesqued; a pantomime in the Sultan's harem; the lovely figure of the danseuse were most volubly received. As always it was fresh, delicate; strange to slangy Manhattan. Four weeks it will linger in the city and then start in Washington a tour of population centres reaching to California...
...every one knows, Woodrow Wilson's Paris trip was the first of its kind. Taft visited Panama in 1910, but stayed in territory under U. S. jurisdiction, except for a brief stop-over at Cuba on the home trip. Harding, returning from his Alaskan tour, visited Vancouver, B. C., not, however, on a diplomatic mission...
...rangy, steel-grey, 52-year-old junior Senator from Connecticut, Hiram Bingham of New Haven, who styles himself "explorer"* sooner than "politician" and who is more professor* than publicist, returned to the U. S. some weeks ago from an extended tour of the Orient. On his way back from war-ridden Tientsin, he visited his birthplace, Honolulu...