Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year in Rome, Clare Luce discovered to her surprise that she had to make great efforts to keep up the pace she had set herself. Day after day, she found herself feeling vaguely tired and ill. At first she ascribed the trouble to "Roman tummy," common to many a tourist. Then bone-gnawing fatigue set in. Nervousness and nausea followed. At an art festival in Venice a friend asked her to waltz. She found that her right foot was benumbed; she almost had to drag it in dancing...
...Vatican officials discovered a new racket flourishing under the noses of the Swiss Guards: forged tickets to papal audiences. Normally issued free by the chief chamberlain, the forged tickets omitted the stamped-on word Gratis, were sold for a pretty tourist penny. Commented the official Demo-Christian newspaper Il Popolo: "This activity is more than illegal. It is ignoble...
...students who live and work in Paris' Latin Quarter have long been famed for their individualism. They take pride in it; as a tourist attraction and source material for novels, they consider themselves one of France's national assets. Outsiders have long accepted their eccentricities and ascribed them simply to bohemianism. A young man or woman who lived in a fifth-floor garret, dressed like a Basque fisherman and sported an outrageous hairdo, was expected to be glamorously undernourished and suspected of harboring tuberculosis. But otherwise their elders were more worried about their morals than their health...
...recent years travelers on tourist ships bound for Europe have been hard put to escape reading a small pamphlet put out by our State Department. The booklet tells the tourist that everywhere he goes on the Continent he will be regarded as an emissary of this country, "an unofficial ambassador" as they say. While designed to make the tourist's stay a pleasanter one, the pamphlet tends to creat moody paranoids out of harmless school-teachers and graduates of progressive high schools. Feeling that the results of the Geneva Conference may be undone by a single misunderstanding, they tiptoe through...
TRANSATLANTIC FARE CUTS will probably be introduced by U.S. overseas airlines in October. Round-trip tourist-class tickets selling for $400, about 20% below present minimum rates, will be restricted at first to 15-day round trips on U.S. carriers. European members of the International Air Transport Association blocked unlimited cut-rate service until April...