Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cuba's croupiers made notes on their calendars last week. Harbinger of the tourist season was a Government announcement that gambling at the Gran Casino Nacional will start December 29. horse-racing at Oriental Park January 21. The open season for Cuban assassinations was meanwhile in full swing...
...faculty of "pinks." He was out to rescue the State from Socialism. A roaring reactionary, he battled those who "would poison the wellsprings of American liberty," and endeared himself to the D. A. R. Without money or organized support he campaigned in a cheap car, put up at tourist camps, peddled his speeches for cash...
...Losers. In 1930 Canada imported $600,000,000 worth of goods from the U. S. The U. S. bought $400,000,000 from Canada, not counting the great imponderable of tourist trade, estimated at $50,000,000 in a normal year. Last year U. S. exports to Canada climbed to $1,100,000,000. Mr. Bennett promises to divert some 50 to 100 millions of this from the U. S. to Britain. The U. S. may expect to lose some of its $81,000,000 trade in iron & iron products. $30,000,000 in coal, $20,000,000 in chemicals...
...because of Peiping. Despite the growth of Nanking and the commercial supremacy of Shanghai, Peiping still looks like the capital of China. It is one of the tourist centres of the world-more so than ever now that the vast, incredible Forbidden City with its acres of palaces beneath acres of yellow tile roofs has been opened to visitors. Manchuria may go to Japan, Canton and the south may secede, Outer Mongolia may be quietly absorbed by Russia, but so long as the central Nanking government has a semblance of control over Peiping they can claim with justice...
...admirer of the U. S., Author Priestley contrives to have his hero bored by a Cincinnati Babbitt who remarks of his library of tourist literature: "I guess I've got the most complete one in the States." More profound and more profitable than Author Priestley's knowledge of U. S. idiom is his knowledge of how to give unreal characters an air of reality by letting them sit down in out-of-the-way places to chat about everyday matters like sex, communism, the cinema, debauchery, patriotism, honesty. The ramblings of Author Priestley's invention are limitless. They make Faraway...