Word: traveling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Amid the stainless steel, leatherette and Formica of coffee shops in Manhattan's Radio City, balding businessmen and their wives from Wichita or Fort Wayne worried over the foreign schedules prepared by hard-pressed travel agents. "Well," one of them murmured, "if Ellen insists, I suppose we could steal a day from Venice to take in Portofino, but where will that leave our two days in Zurich?" In Hannover, Heidelberg and Hamm, German mothers wrapped the last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where...
Dollars for Ancestors. In the van of the mad, meandering mob wandering the face of Europe last week were the travelers from the U.S. Fortnight ago, American Express had reported an early-season drop in Americans abroad, perhaps induced by unsettling reports of inflation and shortages and trouble overseas, but now they were descending on the Continent in overwhelming numbers again. The $150 million spent by some 270,000 Americans in Britain alone this year will provide enough hard curency to pay for most of the dollar-short United Kingdom's purchases of U.S. tobacco and wheat...
Urged on by enterprising travel agencies, foreigners were crowding into every corner sacred to the English heart. Crew-cut Americans festooned with photographic equipment were everywhere. Saris and West African tribal robes drew only passing glances at such strongholds of the Savile Row sack suit as Claridge's and the Dorchester. The harsh accents of Sydney and Melbourne bounced almost unnoticed off the walls of pubs. Scots sextons helped citizens of Canada and the U.S. track down ancestors in their own quiet graveyards, while hairy German legs bristled stoutly beneath their Lederhosen at the changing of the guard...
...hour, finally gambled on lunging to his right, amazingly lighted on a toehold and handhold. In twelve hours the climbers inched upward only 1,000 ft., camped at dark on a precarious ledge. Throats parched, they longed for the water they had left behind in order to travel light (total equipment: 18 lbs.), listened to a stream rippling inside the rock out of sight...
...mood merchants have concentrated on romance (Music for Tired Lovers, Music to Change Her Mind), but dining (Candlelight and Wine) and travel music is also catching on fast (Echoes of Spain, Music for the Nostalgic Traveler). So are such special items as Music for Baby Sitters and Music to Break a Lease. There are mood albums, the record companies boast, for every member of the family and for almost every household activity. Still, the possibilities remain vast. Not yet in the catalogue: Music for Boozing and Music to Soothe Your Hangover, Music to Shave By (so far, the bathroom...