Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England of Ruth McKenney and her husband Richard Bransten is not unlike the Greenwich Village she described in My Sister Eileen-a place considerably more productive of mad fun and giggling fits than the real thing. The book is designed for the intending tourist, a figure Author McKenney seems to picture as a rather backward 14-year-old for whom things have to be put very, very simply, especially dull and difficult things like history...
...these were the outflankers; the main body of the tourist army was applying itself assiduously to seeing America first, hitting the highways in the cool of the morning and getting into the best cabin courts by midafternoon. Thousands of Westerners and Southwesterners were reinstituting an old prewar custom-going to Detroit to pick up a new car and using the savings in freight charges to finance their trip. Almost every automobile company was cooperating enthusiastically; some not only guaranteed prompt delivery, but free showers, free food and free beds to those waiting for cars...
Clockwise. The average tourist (who, in 1950, had begun looking for bargains again) would disregard them all. If he lived in the country he would head for a big city-despite the heat, the crowds and the stench of exhaust fumes. If he lived in a city he would head straight for mosquitoes, poison ivy and a bull that wanted to gore Junior. He would travel by car, visit a national park if he could, and a relative if he couldn't avoid it, and almost always he would drive clockwise around a circular or elliptical route...
From the Pacific Coast, Union Pacific Railroad Co.'s Charles A. Keeble reported: lumber, fishing, steel, paper and tourist business were all "at full capacity and expected to remain so for the balance of the year...
Cartoonist Lancaster's sprightly, prattling text is as amusing as his drawings. As a whole it is a parody of the fly-blown local guide (revised edition, 1910), which is all that the tourist is sure to find in the average British town bookshop. It also unobtrusively manages to deliver a great deal of shrewd literary and social satire. The reader who follows the career of the Figet (or Fidget) family from the days of 15th Century Master Humfrey Figet down to the gayer days of the lovely Shelmerdine Parsley-Ffidgett (who was painted in the buff by Modigliani...