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Word: tourist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they know how to give parties and this was one given by the whole city to the vanguard of 4,000,000 visitors from other States who they estimate will spend $400,000,000 in California this year, $240,000,000 of it right in San Francisco. For a tourist's map of that city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Western Wonderland | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...with rod & reel within the tournament's fixed boundaries-from boat, pier, bridge, bulkhead or breakwater-the Miami tournament, started three years ago, is the largest in the U. S. Last year 102,000 contestants entered their catches. A barefoot boy with a 10? rod, a trailer tourist who goes out on a $2-a-day party boat and an elegant sportsman with a $100 rod and a $1,000 reel have each an equal chance to win some of the $15,000 in prize money. The No. 1 prize is the Miami Beach Rod & Reel Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anglers | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Five of a Kind" is one of a kind with all previous extravaganzas about Canada's principal tourist attraction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

Harold S. Kemp, instructor in Geography, took up the cudgels in favor of Provincetown over Plymouth, but, he said, "the Pilgrims stayed there only two or three days because the Indians were not yet in the tourist business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROVINCETOWN INDIANS NOT IN TOURIST TRADE--KEMP | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

...situation is not new, but each time it happens it is unforgettable to passengers. Sometimes they sit tight. Sometimes they get hysterical. The Frobisher's passengers provided a gay variation. Yankee John Anthony Celler, a tourist from New Haven, Conn., stood up. "Anybody got a flask or something?" he coolly inquired. "I'd like to celebrate this occasion." The equerry looked a bit startled, the businessmen surveyed him askance. But Mlle Anne Chagno of Paris came characteristically into the action. She broke out two bottles of champagne. The businessmen quickly found some tumblers. Yankee Celler popped the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Yankee Toast | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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