Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here we are in Rome," complained an American tourist, camera in hand and vivid sport shirt on torso, one red-hot day last week. "But where are the Romans...
...Handsome, curly-haired Bigamist Leroy Holzman, a New Orleans tourist guide, explained that polygamy was simple enough if a man budgeted his time: he lived with wife No. 2 from midnight to 8 a.m., with wife No. 5 from 5 p.m. until midnight, and with wife No. 4 whenever he had some spare time. He admitted, however, that he had found it necessary to divorce wife No. i and split up with wife No. 3 before his schedule clicked. Said he in jail: "I'd like to get some rest...
...talks with and impressions of Emperors, Presidents, Prime Ministers, U.S. ambassadors, and military commanders. But he has, at the same time, a surprising eye for telling quirks of Oriental life, for street scenes and countryside panoramas, for the odd, chatty stuff that might find a place in an intelligent tourist's letters home...
Lots Better. This year the U.S. State Department acted as sole booking agent, arranged a two-month tour that will take the girls from England to The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and France. A tourist agency took care of transportation, hotels and two meals a day for a total of $1,100 a head (somewhat cheaper than the girls could do it individually). The singers are on their own more than half the time, must get Directress Hiatt's permission only when they stay out later than midnight or go on "single" dates...
Three Days a Year. There was a time in Gray's youth when it seemed he might break loose. In 1739, his friend Walpole whirled him off on a continental tour, and Gray's letters home fizzed with high spirits. Like many a tourist before & after, he found ample material for jokes in such things as French opera and royalty, nuns and pubs, Italian comedy and conversazione. Then, when he seemed to be becoming quite a man of the world, Walpole was rude to him. Gray packed his bag and went home to Cambridge, a gentleman scholar living...