Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...express Canada's gratitude to the onetime Supreme Allied Commander, this legendary home of the chinook winds, familiar to every tourist who has taken the road from Banff to Lake Louise in a famous Canadian national park, had been renamed Mount Eisenhower...
...first starveling years, while Silverman feuded with the powerful theatrical houses of Shubert and Albee, actors shied away from his columns (if they bought space, they might get fired). But in dingy dressing rooms and rocking tourist sleepers, Variety became the hometown paper of every vaudevillager whose slanguage it spoke. Sime Silverman kept it a jump ahead of the sheriff and ahead of the times, managed to shift its accent to the movies long before vaudeville died...
...citizen was killed in them. As for banditry, a U.S. ambassador to Mexico's reply to a worried prospective U.S. visitor was illuminating: "Completely safe [to come to Mexico] if you don't stop in Chicago." Common precautions against dysentery would circumvent "tourist tummy," but a hypersensitive fear of native foodstuffs ("Are the oranges safe?") would get only a sardonic answer ("No, you'd better boil them...
Latins, busily fashioning ways of attracting the tourist dollar, had two chief preoccupations: 1) lack of "first-class accommodations" (hotel rooms in Mexico City and Rio were as scarce as in New York); 2) irksome passport and visa requirements. Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala and Uruguay had made entry easy. Most other Latin American countries...
After two years of famine, Florida was all set for the biggest horse racing jamboree in its history. Tents had to be pitched to stable the overflow of horses; enough jockeys were on hand to stock two race tracks; the tourist stampede had begun. The picture looked beautiful...