Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stimulation of Argentine- Brazilian trade by preferential tariffs; 3) A & B co-operation to stamp out smuggling; 4) mutual assistance in preventing South American revolutionists from hatching plots against their President on the soil of another country; 5) cultural interchange between A & B; 6) promotion of A & B tourist travel; 7) "encouragement of aviation...
...small, too safe. Scion of an ancient line (beginning in 1060), and inheritor of great estates, he stayed caged only long enough to go through Eton and Cambridge, then set off to live dangerously in far places. Twice before he was 20 he circled the globe, but trotting in tourist tracks was not his idea. He aimed to make his body an instrument of his will. Practicing this counsel of perfection, he wandered purposefully to Mexico, California, Alaska, the Barren Lands north of Hudson Bay, the centre of Africa, Siberia, South America, Burma...
...windows again. Police on the loose peppered the shutters of several shops with machine gun bullets, rode about Havana at night firing into the air and were accused of shooting down both Oppositionists and bystanders in ruthless efforts to obey Chief Ainciart's order: "Break the strikes!' Tourist steamers, fearing to dock at Havana, passed up the port. Supplies of meat, bread, oils, beer and other Cuban necessities ran alarmingly low, while prices skyrocketed. With panic spreading, Cubans remembered that Mediator Welles delivered in Havana two months ago a message from the White House in which President Roosevelt...
...crusade. The conp-de-grâce came in 1917 when the State Supreme Court upheld a Red-light Abate ment Act, permitting the city to proceed in civil court against owners of property used for immoral purposes. For a few gloomy years "the Coast" tried to subsist on tourist trade by pretending to be tough and bawdy; but its harlots had been driven out of the district. "Now, of course," says good-humored Author Asbury, ''San Francisco has no prostitutes...
...thought he was in love with Margaret, a proper young hypocrite whom he kissed in the woods beyond St. Cloud. His mother's sudden death in a carriage accident put an end to that affair for a while. Then he went to Italy, where his tourist impressions were noted with great care, and finally to the Mediterranean island of Aeaea, "twelve hours from Naples," which is mythical. Mythical or not, there he met Katharina, "Katha" for short, and not much later they were swimming naked in the blue Mediterranean. They planned to live together in London...