Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holiday in Germany, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's President Getulio Vargas celebrated May Day by treating Good-Will Tourist Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to a 9? lunch at a workers' restaurant. While they ate, loudspeakers blared Emily Post slogans. Sample: "Don't wipe your mouth on the tablecloth; use a paper napkin." Goodwillman Fairbanks was lionized by Rio society, cheered by 50,000 football fans. Asked by newspapermen why Hollywood presents so distorted a view of Latin-American life (see p. 34), quick-witted Actor Fairbanks replied that Hollywood often presented a pretty...
...annual tourist trade had dropped from some $10,000,000 to almost zero...
...years ago. So Gerard's hope for a cut of the tourist fees is plausible...
...there is a garage two doors away. Orthodox Greeks have taken over the Episcopal church across the street. In a nearby tourist lodging, a Philadelphia gangster murdered a woman with a brutality that diverted readers of Richmond newspapers for days. Rooming houses, chain stores, laundries, bakeries have crept in like the moral decay in a Glasgow novel. During Prohibition a humor-loving cop told Ellen Glasgow that her home was now in the heart of the bootlegging district. She said it was comforting to think that even a bootlegging district had a heart...
Businessmen who had suffered from the loss of winter tourist trade got the ban lifted in 1915, and Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, owner of Kentucky's famed Idle Hour Farm, who took over the old course in 1925, turned it into a show place. The Colonel built up the New Orleans Handicap purse to $50,000 - the U. S.'s richest winter stake. Those brave days lasted seven years. Then Louisiana's oafish dictator, Huey Long, decided it was time for Bradley to go. Up went the Fair Grounds' real-estate assessment to prohibitive heights...