Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spoiling for a fight last week young U. S. citizens stormed the Brazilian Embassy at Washington, Brazilian Consulates throughout the U. S., the Brazilian Tourist Bureau in Manhattan...
...world, or a weekend in a battered Ford to the nearest trout stream or football game. It seems less interested in telling where to go than in suggesting what to do upon getting there. Also new is Holiday's willingness to poke fun at the grimly thorough tourist...
Managing Editor Frank A. Eaton, formerly of eminently tasteful Sportsman, could easily fill his publication with photographs supplied free of charge by tourist bureaus, articles by press agents. Instead he gathered about him for his first issue contributors of fame, among them: Sinclair Lewis, Ellis Parker Butler, Berton Braley, Corey Ford, Heywood Broun, Stephen Leacock, and Artists John Holmgren, Adolph Triedler, John Rae, Tony Sarg...
Bounce. A certain Marcello Nitrati, Italian tourist, had just scaled St. Peter's dome and jumped off. After bouncing once against the side of the dome he plunged to the roof (308 ft. below), became the first suicide in the newly constituted Papal State (TIME...
...have had their splendor wiped away by police cleanup squads during a decade. Modern Chinatowns stand revealed as parts of the surrounding slums. Down their narrow streets busloads of thrill seekers trudge, disappointedly viewing Christian missions, Presbyterian churches, sack-suited U. S. Chinese. Only in curio-shops and such tourist centres do the sightseers glimpse a tawdry replica of the surroundings in which mandarins once paraded their gorgeous costumes on Chinese festival-days, in which painted, gold-spangled girls were sold for hundreds of dollars, in which wide-sleeved, colorful hatchetmen fought slyly for the sake of their Tongs...