Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure to draw impressionable youth from Adolf Hitler. The pomp and ceremony of a Habsburg court, always the stiffest in Europe, would be a drawing card for Austria's languishing tourist trade. It would bring Austria the not inconsiderable backing of the Vatican. On the other hand, the restoration of Otto in Austria is but a stepping stone to restoration of the entire polyglot Austro-Hungarian Empire. It would cause instant mobilization of the armies of Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania, countries that...
...cause may be the complexly of modern life which demands some from of psychological release from the worries of the N.R.A. Sea-serpents were never seen by the sailors on the clippers which sailed out of Salem in the old days. It takes warm spring weather and a brisk tourist service to develop really good monster crazes...
...fast crawl stroke. After cleverly dodging her father's detectives she leaves Miami via bus for New York to rejoin her lover. On the bus she meets Peter Warn, who after the typical Clark Gable show of insolence takes her under his protection. Then ensue several scenes at tourist camps, many of them quite amusing. The result is that the couple by gradual stages progress to New York. Then come several bewildering episodes which are inexplicable according to the ordinary rules of human behavior, but which are followed by a denouement which could hardly be improved upon. On the whole...
...hear from tourists who stopped at one of the Americanized hotels in Mexico City and went right on buying their favorite home brands of tooth paste, radios, underwear, shoes and automobile gadgets, that a peso is just 280. But the Mexican worker doesn't live like a tourist and he wouldn't want...
...vast panorama of American hospitality in 1897 down to the present day. Mr. Lewis has studied with his usual his subject and its settings, from "Westward Ho! Hotel" of New York in the early 1900's to Myron's new modern inn in Connecticut, not forgetting even the Tourist Camp of 1933. It still retains that splendid and vivid connectivity of description which characterized "Babbitt," and he has had the good fortune or the wisdom to choose a subject which has proved, in the "Imperial Palace" and in "Grand Hotel" that it is perennially intriguing...