Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold, must be made of silver gilded to look like gold. They must also be embellished with silver balls which the English call "pearls," but never with real pearls or gems of any sort. Thus a real duke in his mere gold coronet is usually able to slip past tourists unobserved at the opening of Parliament, bold barons bearing the brunt. A new ducal coronet may be bought from Cartier in London for about $1,000, but a headgear of some sort set with precious stones might be sold to the right tourist as a "ducal coronet...
...different tribes, superb photographs of the desert and its denizens. Though he embroiders his narrative with tales of the desert and its lore, the author's thoughts, like his camels, found food scanty in the sands. Written in a style reminiscent of Charles M. Doughty's masterpiece. Tourist Thomas' magnificently produced book (compared with Travels in Arabia Desertary} seems the record of a somewhat barren scientific tour de force...
...period no U. S. tourist returned from Italy without a copy of one of the blue and white Delia Robbia bambini which decorate the façade of the Florentine Foundling Hospital. Their designer was not Cleveland's Luca Delia Robbia (1400-82), but his prolific nephew, Andrea. Luca, however, perfected the enamel-coated terra cotta ware of which they are made. A suave sculptor, he lacked the virility of his great contemporaries (Verrocchio, Donatello) but had an able talent, designed a number of pieces beloved by romantics. His greatest was the series of singing angels and dancing boys...
...Lincolns must be delivered in Russia, according to the contract, by Red May Day, when the Soviet tourist season opens. The roster of the rich who went to Russia last year included Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, many a Junior Leaguer, many a Social Registrite...
America (usually intelligent, travel-wise, fully aware of the unquestioned joy of getting really off the beaten path) knows what South America has to offer. It is also time that South Americans know another type of tourist than the one which religiously fails to survive the daily cocktail hour, snorts ceaselessly at the embryonic plumbing, and tries to carve his initials on the Lima cathedral. From the Andes to the Atlantic, northern South America offers: the world's largest untamed (but travel-easy) wilderness, peerless hunting, excellent fishing, real but tractable savages, colorful waterways and jungle paths, and altogether...