Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate. Some, perhaps, have felt a coldness in the traditional Cambridge absence of attention, but the majority have a probably been rather grateful for an atmosphere which minimizes curiosity and accepts one and all in the same spirit of cosmopolitanism. The foreign student wishes to step out of the tourist role, to lose his consciousness of nationality, to observe and take part without under comment...
Gluck auf! auf wiedersehn! thin-faced Germans, expatriates in Moscow, bared their heads in last week's chilly air and cried good wishes to a small, chunky blonde girl, who dressed in grey knickers, sat at the wheel of a smart tourist car. She, Clarenore Stinnes, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes, Germany's post-War industrial tsar, had broken a transeurasian tour at Moscow...
Thos. Cook & Son, tourist agents, last week finished arrangements for the first organized U. S. air tour-from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, to Chicago, where the tourists are to see the forthcoming Tunney-Dempsey prizefight; and return. Planes. Twenty planes, carrying 4 to 8 passengers each, will make the tour. Each will have a glass enclosed cabin, wicker armchairs, radio headphones at each seat. Money's Worth. The round-trip fare of $575 includes hotel quarters at tour start and at Chicago, motor carriage between hotels and flying fields, a picnic lunch en route, re-served ringside...
Educators have long deplored and humorists ridiculed the ways of the U. S. tourist among foreign art centres. After a restful week at sea, he despatches the Louvre in two trips of three hours each and says: "I could have done it in 20 minutes with spikes on!" So too through Rome, Florence, Vienna, Munich, Dresden, Berlin, Brussels, Antwerp, London. At last, duty done he embarks for home and another week's rest at sea. In short, the only period of that leisure which is so necessary to enjoyable contemplation of art is spent at sea where, usually, there...
...Vienna, Austria, a fortnight ago, a policeman strode up to one Michael O'Flaherty, tourist, and informed him that because he had dropped a tram car ticket on the street he was liable to pay a fine of 8½ schillings ($1.25) for "littering...