Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Farson noted with weary spleen that all South Americans are "Yanqui-haters," that all tourist publicity is phony, that the Germans and Japanese are mak-ing mincemeat of U. S. trade. He found a Japanese circus, a Japanese typewriter repairman; Japanese had even gone into the business of making imitation shrunken human heads...
Well might Britain be uneasy, knowing Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha's traits. He was appealed to some time ago by the Egyptian Tourist Development Association along these lines: "The tourists dislike riots. As you are an Egyptian patriot, will you not keep your Greenshirts from rioting during the tourist season?" Mahmoud agreed. Since then Cairo's tourist season has been almost completely free of riots, but the new Premier's henchmen have redoubled their efforts in other ways. This patriotic restraint has not affected the Fascistic zealotry of the new Premier and his followers, best exemplified by some...
Angna Enters' tourist observations are sometimes so accurate as to be childlike, as when she remarks that all Spaniards spit. Far from childlike, however, are the rich and strange characters she has imagined, costumed and made live in pantomime: a sultry, majestic Spanish girl of the 16th Century dancing the slow Pavana; a tragically refined pre-War young woman at a party in Vienna Provincial; and Queen of Heaven, for which Miss Enters recently got into the bad books of the Roman Catholic bishop of Montana. having quoted, as a program note, Henry Adams' remark that...
From Bucharest, Tourist Delbos sped to Belgrade to be entertained by Yugoslav Premier Milan Stoyadinovich who had spent the earlier part of the week in Rome being feted by Dictator, King and Pope, and arranging to buy Italian war planes for Yugoslavia. While M. Delbos shook hands with Premier Stoyadinovich who is up to his neck in Fascism, the Roman press jeered "Delbos is wasting his time!" Under their late, assassinated King Alexander I (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), the Yugoslavian people were taught, however, to think of France as their friend and Italy as their enemy...
...things inspires him. His letter, Hetty to Nancy, turns a camping trip into a near-masterpiece of burlesquerie, describes, among other things, a pneumatic mattress-"sighing like something out of A. E. Housman;" the three kinds of Central Iceland scenery-"Stones, More Stones, and All Stones;" a tourist party of middle-aged Englishwomen - "with ankles lapping down over their shoes and a puglike expression of factitious enthusiasm combined with the determination to be in at the death, whoever or whatever is dying." Prone to laugh the world off in one breath, to succumb helplessly to it in the next...