Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yankee Dollar. U.S. tourists spent $37,000,000 in the British Isles last year, topping all other single British sources of dollar revenues (textiles brought $36,600,000 and beverages $33,600,000). This year Britain hopes that the U.S. tourist trade will bring in at least...
...went off to Europe, met a fellow tourist, blonde Margery Pepperell Kimball from Massachusetts. Their romance bloomed. They were no sooner married than Clifford began nourishing as a lawyer. St. Louis Lawyer Jacob Lashly began throwing accident cases his way, soon saw that with juries, handsome, earnest Clifford was "well nigh irresistible." By 1938 the firm became Lashly, Lashly, Miller & Clifford and by 1942 the new partner was making $25,000 a year...
Describing that memorial, Adams supplied (in his Education of Henry Adams) a thoughtful epitaph for Saint-Gaudens himself. "Numbers of people came," he wrote, "for the figure seemed to have become a tourist fashion, and all wanted to know its meaning. Most took it for a portrait statue, and the remnant were vacant-minded in the absence of a personal guide. None felt what would have been a nursery instinct to a Hindu baby or a Japanese jinricksha-runner. . . . Like all great artists, Saint-Gaudens held up the mirror and no more...
...Miami, where the weather was fine, the lag in tourist business was blamed. An other reason was that the tumble in grain prices had knocked many a farmer out of the market. All over, customers were running out of money and could not afford the still sky-high prices...
...tourists were enchanted. Before she could say Liliuokalani, Clara was the barefoot toast of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and a great tourist attraction. But it took her ten years to catch on with the home-folks. Last week, as Hilo Hattie, Clara was Hawaii's No. 1 radio hit, and the talk of Polynesia...