Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juan, the capital. By prearrangement, in the front of the crowds that lined the way were children, the brown, half-naked, half-starved little creatures who are Governor Roosevelt's chief concern.? Beggary is a pastime among these youngsters whose cry ("Gimme moan-ee") is known to every tourist...
...broke. At any rate, he interrupted the conversation to telephone his wife that he would be "a little late for dinner." Then he marched from "The Statesman's Window" to obscurity. Shortly before 6 o'clock that night he was seen at a Euclid Village tourist restaurant and was not seen again. Three days later his wife reported his disappearance to the police...
...from the $2,080,000,000 total of 1929. To "help hasten a revival, Pan American last week provisionally slashed fares by an average of 30%-reductions ranging from 8% to 42%. Immediate objective is to coax U.S. traveling salesmen to fly into South America, also to stimulate tourist travel in the Carib bean. Some reductions: Miami-Rio de Janeiro, from $763 to $603; Miami-Cristobal, C. Z., from $329 to $223; Brownsville, Tex.-Cristobal, from $332 to $232; Miami-Havana, from $45 to $28; Miami-Nassau, from...
...TIME supposed it intentional.-ED. Old Joe on Annette Sirs: Your word picture of Bermuda-great! One mistake though-Annette Kellerman didn't give any exhibition in Prospero's Cave, at least no swimming or diving exhibition. The place is called "Devil's Hole" by both tourists and natives. A hellish name, if you ask me. Anyway, the "Hole" is populated with a specimen of every fish found in the surrounding waters from turtles to octopi. "Old Joe," the keeper, secretly told me, as he told every other tourist that ever visited the place, "Annette Kellerman...
Despite its name and an imposing grey sandstone exterior, the French Institute in the U. S. building contains neither the French consulate, the French Government tourist bureau nor the offices of the French commercial attache. It is a private organization to further French culture in the U. S., contains a lecture hall, reference library and a number of beautifully decorated, little-used "state apartments." The Dales felt that an excellent way of attracting public interest to the organization would be the establishment of a permanent gallery of French Art. They provided the money, supervised the remodeling of a suite...