Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...echoing rotunda of the U. S. Capitol, when the last creaking footstep of the final tourist has died away, when the Capitol police unbutton collars and open night-school lawbooks, and the fat rats begin their soft scuttling around the old statues-then, says legend, the great ghosts of the U. S. past meet for nightly debate over the day's issues. One sweet autumn night last week those historic phantoms had a new historic event to talk over. For as surely as if the votes were already counted, as definitely as if the President had already signed...
...present Marchioness of Reading. The Viceroy told her the best way to understand the American people was to attend their national political conventions. She went to both in 1936, then went coast-to-coasting in a fifth-hand Buick. To understand the Americans a little better she stopped at tourist homes at night and helped with the dishes next morning. WVS takes all her time now on a 9:45-till-anytime schedule. Her London house is closed and when she sleeps she sleeps in a West End hotel, the name of which is known only...
...Kennedy revealed that many third-class tourist passengers were trapped in dining rooms, drowned below decks...
...Hardest hit by Mr. Hull's crackdown were tourist agencies. With no tours to book, no increase in travel to non-warring countries, Thos. Cook & Son laid off 125 employes, tightened its belt, like many a competitor, prepared for a starvation diet...
...There are not enough hotels in Alaska even to meet the present tourist trade...