Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restaurants are the little cards which read "NO TIPPING. Our waiters are glad to serve you without gratuities," and which usually add gentle preachment about the dignity of man. But news would be any nation where tipping was against the national law, big news if that nation were France, tourist playground of the world, synonym for good food and good service rewarded via the outstretched palm. Last week Léon Blum, reaching the end of his first year as Premier-a year which he said was notable for "the restoration of human dignity" in France-was out to make...
...TIME, April 19 and May 10 articles dealing with the collection of fines from the tourist public by the district constables have produced just and severe criticism of the State of Mississippi. We are not protesting the publication of 'these letters. They have served the very good purpose of awakening the public officials to the necessity of stamping out this practice. The matter will unquestionably be given the attention of our Legislature in 1938. Aroused public sentiment has already put a stop to the practice. It is unfortunate that the action of a score or less of selfish individuals...
...Medicine helped to grow, their inner natures have now developed to the point where character and personality are distinguishable. Biologically they are not identical Quintuplets (from one subdivided ovum) but fraternal ones (from five separate eggs). The 750,000 visitors* who will look in at them during the 1937 tourist season, may value the following third birthday data on what they...
...given his blessing to a scheme for building a $20,000,000 motor highway through British Columbia and the Yukon to Alaska. With the fusion of British Columbia and the Yukon there is a better chance that the road will get under way. This project, endorsed by many a tourist organization and chamber of commerce, is disliked by those who think that such a road might be used for military purposes in the event of war between the U. S. and a Far Eastern power...
...Hugh Gibson-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). For the well-heeled tourist, from the Pan-American diplomat, a diplomatic prospectus on "the world's most beautiful harbor city." Illustrated...