Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there: The cell where Dantes slept, the cup from which he drank, and for a franc or two you can touch the initials he carved on the wall. Why do such things thrill us? Perhaps it's the secret desire we all have for immortality, for fame. One tourist with horn-rimmed glasses paid his franc and then proceeded to carve his own initials under those of Dantes. But then again another had to be reminded of a big sign in the cell: "Defense d'Uriner Dans Les Prisons." Such is life...
...Every tourist who has roamed Seville's romantic Moorish palace or Alcazar can picture vividly the scene of last week as swarthy, cloaked Moroccans entered to hail the Generalissimo with flowery thanks and extravagant Mohammedan promises which he returned in kind...
Back in the 1920s when the tourist camp was burgeoning into a national eyesore, Pierce Petroleum Corp. launched in the Midwest a chain of pleasant-looking roadside hotels complete with Renaissance restrooms and Colonial halls hung with $20,000 worth of genuine Currier & Ives prints. Attractive though these small hotels were, they turned out to be a great financial flop, and in 1930 along with the rest of Pierce Petroleum's assets, were sold to what is now Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. For its hotels, refineries, pipelines, filling stations, Pierce Petroleum received among other things...
...order in the same way. Noting the failure of similar groups throughout the country, to make ends meet by straight farming, Noyes and his shrewd, God-fearing colleagues turned to canning fruits and vegetables, manufactured the world-famed Newhouse steel trap, made silk, plated silverware, did a big tourist trade in vegetable dinners...
ROAD MY BODY GOES-Clifford Gessler -Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.50). A tourist-free island of the South Seas described by a Honolulu newspaperman who spent a picturesque three months there, warns his readers away by saying the mosquitoes reek with elephantiasis germs...