Word: tours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Hoover, as President-Elect skipped Cuba on his Latin-American tour this year. Significant or not, this omission was sufficient to bring out of the shadows all the anti-Machado agitators in the U. S. and to guide their footsteps to Secretary Stimson's door with requests that "something be done...
...earthy humor, and having heard of the impious Anatole France, denounced them both. The pious dared not listen to the dean of the Academic. "There was not a soul in the boxes and not one woman in the house. In all, three hundred baldpates. It was funereal." The lecture tour was salvaged by substituting a laudatory address on South America. The original lectures now appear in book form to make pleasant if somewhat disappointing reading. From the mass of anecdote that has accumulated about the figure of the famed 16th Century Gascon, Lecturer France has gleaned the few bits that...
...seemed as shallow and mechanical as last year's gossip. But General Manager Gatti-Casazza had another contract ready for her signature, and her country-wide appeal was proved by more than 40 concert contracts. From the spring of 1926 to February 1928, she netted $334,000 on tour. Today she can still get her fee of $3,500 per appearance in the less sophisticated cities. Perhaps she is piqued at the defection of the larger musical centres...
...many a Cheney journeyed to South Manchester, Conn., met many another Cheney. These multitudinous Cheneys were gathered for the wedding of Frances, daughter of Frank Cheney Jr. to Roger, son of Architect Charles A. Platt. After the wedding the Cheneys drove around the town, inspecting their bailiwick. On their tour of inspection, reflective, antiquarian Cheneys may have mused on the year 1833, when the first Cheney came into contact with the first silkworm cocoon at South Manchester. Since then the town has known many Cheneys, many cocoons. Genealogically-minded Cheneys may have pondered, as they drove about, on the ramifications...
James Alexander Stillman, Manhattan banker, steamed for Europe last week. Inevitably asked about divorce, he said: "No, I'm simply making a golfing tour. Mrs. Stillman is not accompanying me because she is supervising repairs to one of our houses...