Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open wide. Special arrangements are available for housing and the longer he plans to stay in the country, the better the chances he has for a suitable place to stay. But the condition of French economy is deceptively sound and while there is food enough to handle all expected tourists, there is certainly none to spare. The tourist compensates for his food consumption by his usually large outlay, but the student, travelling on restricted means is in no position to recompense the country in such a fashion, and though the black market is now pretty well minimized, a sudden influx...
...number of takers has been low. But the moderate cost of living in France and the attractions of Paris in the Spring are bound to awaken an appetite for Gallic extension courses among those who never thought much of school work. France, a country with a crying need for tourist trade, is less concerned with the intellectual means of its prospective culture crop than it is with the dollars that will accompany it. The success of this program in future years will depend in large measure on the intentions demonstrated by the present group seeking overseas education. By neglecting their...
...Denver since the turn of the century. In his five terms as mayor, he has pushed gambling and prostitution outside the city limits, completed the $50 million water system on which Denver's hopes for industrial expansion are based, fought for and built a municipal airport, encouraged tourist money and kept the city free of major strikes...
...onetime chapel is now Le Theatre du Grand-Guignol (The Theater of the Big Puppets), the greatest horror show on earth. As a tourist attraction, it has ranked for years with the Eiffel Tower, Picasso, and the late maisons de tolerance...
Decadence & Death. English Author Malcolm Lowry, who is 38, spent the better part of the past ten years writing Under the Volcano, while roaming over half the face of the globe as tourist and merchant seaman. The setting of Under the Volcano is chiefly a run-down villa in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (presumably modeled on the popular Anglo-American "colony" of Cuernavaca, where Author Lowry once lived). In the villa, matching its decay with his own collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac. Upon him, one bright morning-just...