Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt, who slept in a tourist cabin last month when a Maine hotel barred Fala, got advance assurance this time from a hotel in Albany, N.Y.: Fala would get the big hello, with special dog biscuit. Before she arrived in the city to keynote the state Democratic Convention -her accident-blackened eyes almost healed, her new teeth installed (see cut)-she gave a vigorous answer to a tired old question. "A long while ago," said she, "I said that I would not run for any office. That holds. I'm one of the few people, apparently, who mean...
...Brunswick, welcoming close to 500 cars a day, roughly figured its take was already close to $8,000,000, with more business to come in September and October (a hunting month). Ontario, in a golden daze, was sure last year's $96,000,000 tourist income would be topped by at least 20%. French Canada estimated that it would entertain at least 15 million Americans, knew only that the profit would be enormous...
Houdini claims to have won every Calypso "war" since 1920. The Calypso Carnival held on the two days before Ash Wednesday is now a major tourist attraction in Port-of-Spain, with each of the rival kings setting up headquarters in bamboo tents, and challenging each other to sing-downs composed on the spur of the moment...
When young (36) Mario Lasso was Mexican consul general in Chicago, by appointment of his uncle, Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, he took personal care of tourist-card applications filed by particularly pretty girls. That was how he met his second and present wife, tiny, blonde Flora Dancy, 24, of Clinton, Ind., whom he brought back to Mexico last fall when he returned to run Uncle Ezequiel's presidential campaign. Says Flora of husband Mario: "Yes, a great wolf...
...Road of the Exquisite." Good times and tourist dollars had smothered the revolutionary fire in younger Mexicans. Today's artists were more interested in painting to please the multitude of nouveaux riches than in refighting battles already won or lost. "Now," mourned Siqueiros, "60% of our painters have left our school in favor of that of Paris. Our school is social, heroic, and monumental. They are going, more or less, on the road of the exquisite, of the snob...