Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were hundreds of thousands of dossiers, each at least 18 inches thick and a foot square, including maps, plans, photographs and guidebooks, giving minute detail about every part of Britain. Even tourist picture post cards and newspaper photographs were included...
...coveted bridge. Close by the bridge was open space-the tree-lined Hunerpark. Commanding its sweep was a red-brick tower: old Fort Belvedere, a relic of Charlemagne's reign. The lower floors of Belvedere had in peacetime housed a tea room, its tower had been a tourist lookout. Now Belvedere was a fort again. Out of its doors and windows stuck the ugly snouts of German antitank guns. Atop the tower were more guns, snipers, and lookouts...
...Journey (20th Century-Fox) is a travel picture made by Armand and Leila Roosevelt Denis, producers of the magnificent Dark Rapture (1938). Among its glimpses of the Belgian Congo, the Ganges, Ceylon and Burma there are only a few shots which, in the words of Baedeker, need detain the tourist. But these few make the picture worth seeing. Best...
...last year he had sold enough dip to buy the Saltees. He began planting 3,000 trees, developing his domain as a luxury tourist resort. He also talked about recruiting a private army...
Whisking and Oiling. Former Paris Managing Editor Eric Hawkins and Correspondent John O'Reilly expected to find a shambles when they reached the New York Herald Tribune's old office at 21 rue de Berri, home of the tourist-loved Paris Herald. Instead they found their bureau's prewar business manager, Renee Brasier, whisking the office into shape and talking plans for future work. Triumphantly she led them to the composing room. "There, cleaning up forms and oiling linotype machines, were mechanical employes of the paper, some of whom had worked for it since...