Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel was a hood with class. His home outside Beverly Hills was a tourist showpiece. He dined with Barbara Hutton, went yachting with Countess Dorothy di Frasso...
This coy summons in English appears on a big poster in the lobby of the Hotel Condestable in brown old Burgos. Similar appeals from a dollar-hungry Government can be seen in most of the world's tourist offices. Whether you will find what they promise depends on your definition...
...volume was lush with enticing descriptions of all the standard prewar meccas and war had added a clutch of new see-worthy sights to attract the tourist eye and dollar. In Normandy, as of yore, there were "hotels to suit all means and tastes," and now there was also "a comfortable service of motor coaches making daily trips to the landing beaches and battlefields." For those who chose to rough it at Omaha Beach, some abandoned landing barges would make convenient bathhouses...
...Britain," says the Herald guide frankly, "is very dollar-conscious," but there is a limit to the sacrifices some Britons would make for the sake of the almighty greenback. In London's West End last week, a hotel manager turned down one party of 20 wealthy U.S. tourists because a travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book...
Umberto II of Italy was the latest jobless monarch to eye the U.S. as a tourist. He had a lot of friends there, said he, and it was just a matter of packing...