Word: touring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rank & file of Catholics to the front lines-through Catholic Action, defined as "lay participation in the apostolate of the hierarchy." Last week the Church's outstanding lay expert on Catholic Action, Paul McGuire of Adelaide, Australia, was in the U. S. on a coast-to-coast lecture tour, to expound the lay apostolate under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus-itself an excellent example of Catholic Action...
Published at the rate of ten books a month, in first printings of at least 50,000 copies, Penguin books now sell 12,500,000 copies a year. But much bigger things are in the offing. Allen Lane is now on a four-month tour of India and the Near East. If those markets look as good as they sound, he will begin his biggest venture yet: publishing Penguin books in Basic English, a simple 850-word vocabulary sifted out by Orthologist-Critic Charles Kay Ogden. Besides the prospect of getting rich while combining two of the liveliest ideas...
...French Tour (Tues. 6:05 p. m. NBC-Blue), a microphone junket that in the next three months will do Paris from the hotcha Bal Tabarin to the Sorbonne and rest up in the provinces. First brush: with a Paris taxidriver...
Last week while Queen Sonja was winding up a transcontinental personal-appearance tour, which attracted 757,000 spectators and grossed $1,000,000, five little ladies-in-waiting met at St. Paul to see who is the best amateur figure skater in the U. S. Contrary to popular impression derived from the dozens of professional ice-skating shows that have been touring the country, figure skating is neither acrobatics on skates nor dancing on ice. The sport of figure skating has a set of explicit school figures, 41 in number, which must be executed with hairline precision...
...Army of Northern Virginia, raid with Forrest, build railroads with a fellow Confederate veteran, Colonel Thurmond, after Appomattox. He fought duels, wrote a popular thriller, The White Rose of Memphis, which had sold 160,000 copies before it went out of print 30 years ago, made the grand tour of Europe, always went armed. He also quarreled with peace-loving Partner Thurmond, ran against him for the legislature. On election day 1889, after a savage campaign, Colonel Falkner walked out unarmed after hearing he had won, met Colonel Thurmond, who shot him down on the main street of the town...