Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President James Bryant Conant of Harvard sailed back from a vacation in North Wales on the S. S. Europa, tourist class...
...forbidding a licensed victualer to sell spirits or even keep a bottle in the house in case of illness. ''That prohibition is ruining our business." declared a spokesman for the Association. 'If we are to be ruined let all Belgium suffer too! If we can entirely eliminate the tourist trade Parliament is responsible...
Thus advertised the Alaska Line this summer, believing that many a tourist would like to see what few tourists have seen?the grinding, gleaming polar ice pack, which squeezes ships to death in winter, retreats north of the Arctic Circle in summer. For its pioneer cruise the company refitted its 3,868-ton icebreaker Victoria, booked passengers at $250 to $390. Last week, laden to the gunwales with 500 "arm-chair adventurers" and well started on its 7,000-mile, 26-day itinerary, the Victoria sailed from Nome for the dash to the ice pack's fringe. Later the ship...
Then at Munich there was the case of C. W. Woodside, instructor at the University of Toronto. His hotelkeeper heard him say to a fellow tourist, "I nearly got into trouble this morning. I saluted their Nazi anthem but not all the flags and a Storm Troop officer made me show him my passport before he would let me go." At this revelation, Instructor Woodside's eavesdropping Munich hotelkeeper shouted: "There is no place for you in this hotel," threw him bag and baggage out of his room...
...check our six-guns at the door with the hat girl when we go into a public place, and we have the Indians pretty well in hand now? but we do not like this condition to be generally known back there because it might spoil our tourist trade. However I will have to apologize for the crude tactics of our lumbermen. They have not even advanced to the Stone Age in their methods of warfare. For instance, one rarely sees anything but fists used in a lumber camp brawl out here. And it begins to look as if it would...