Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because thousands of them went south this year, Florida was having a good season last week. Press agents, nightclub men, the managers of the black-tie hotels paid them very little heed. These gentry were largely occupied in bemoaning or explaining the "bad" season. By all the travel indexes (airlines, railways, busses, boats), more people went to Florida this year than ever. But less big money went there, or at any rate was spent there. That portion of Miami, Miami Beach and kindred spots which was built for and catered to the big-money trade found itself overbuilt (Miami Beach...
Died. Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, 67, oldtime Midwestern novelist and friend of Poet James Whitcomb Riley, who turned to writing travel books after World War I, published the highly successful So You're Going to - series; in Chicago...
Also just take yourself out to Fort Dix for a pleasant day's excursion and watch the workmen lazily going about their labors as though they were not at all interested in whether the plumbing ever got finished. And should you enjoy the sight of mud, travel no further. All the mud in the country is now concentrated at Fort...
...Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell, the fractious, fastidious scions of Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, Lord of the Manor of Long Itchington. Osbert is a poet, essayist, novelist (Before the Bombardment, Escape With Me). Sacheverell is an outstanding authority on baroque art and Liszt, author of a distinguished travel book (Roumanian Journey) and much verse. Edith usually dresses like a medieval prioress, writes sharp, hard, colorful poetry that gives the impression of viridian green and Chinaman's-heart's-blood laid on in arabesque by a razor blade...
Later he joined his father who had succeeded in establishing a travel agency in Warsaw. But disaster once again overtook the family when, in the Polish pogrom of August, 1937, an armed band of roughnecks broke into his father's office and injured the elder Spiegel...