Word: travelerism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One sunny morning, at a North Carolina crossroads marked by a ruined chapel on a hill, a traveler climbed wearily from his horse. There, in the shade of a big poplar tree, William Richardson Davie, the future governor of the state, took a long, cool draught from the jug beside...
Telegraphic Ornaments. The Board of War Communications resurrected a pre-war U.S. institution, the singing telegram, and hastened to add that this amenity would not be allowed to confuse the nation's serious business. Also back: congratulatory telegrams. Still missing: such Western Union innovations as shopping and messenger service...
To Cincinnati's astonishment, the Trollopes proceeded to erect what one traveler described as "the great deformity of the city" - a brick bazaar with "Gothic windows, Grecian pillars ... a Turkish dome, and Egyptian devices." Therein, they planned to sell the gewgaws of Manchester and Birmingham to the savages of...
Succeeding to the post held since 1934 by Arthur Wild, Lawrence Dame, editorial writer and art editor for the Boston Herald-Traveler, has been appointed Director of the Harvard University News Office for one year from September 1, the University announced last night.
In Birmingham, Ala., where the city's three daily newspapers have been closed for three weeks by a printers' strike, people began to worry in earnest. One by one the striking printers were taking jobs elsewhere; by week's end 45 of them had drawn traveler'...