Word: trip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Commons heckled penitent Mr. Churchill a bit, but also it listened gladly to other statements with which he barraged his admissions. Members heard that he had just returned from a trip to France to persuade the French Navy to send its two speedy battle-cruisers, Dunkerque and Strasbourg (designed and built precisely to catch and destroy pocket battleships), out after Deutschland and Admiral Scheer. Reports from South Atlantic waters soon evidenced new activity by both French and British navies. Satisfied that they had something to chase, they were out in force scouring the seas, putting in here & there...
...Maxwell Anderson's How Can You Tell An American; the editor of the Randolph (Vt.) weekly Herald and News reported the first Vermont freeze, announced that the local cider mill was open for business; Raymond Massey recited from Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Bob Benchley skitted through a shopping trip; Joe Cook imitated his three Hawaiians; Novelist Carl Carmer (The Hudson, Listen for a Lonesome Drum), countrywide correspondent for Pursuit of Happiness, reported the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Hartford Courant, the latest folklore on rattlesnakes...
...Partner Shields, kidded by fellow men-about-town. Nevertheless, Socialites Wood and Shields-one the owner of a California gold mine and the other a Broadway insurance broker-have not yet missed a day at the laundry. Last week Partner Wood entrained for California on his first washtub business trip. At Santa Monica he will open a branch laundry, to be managed by Tennist Frankie Parker...
...promptly annulled, and Mlle Lambrino was pensioned off ($12,000 a year) and banished from the country. A few months later she gave birth to a boy, named him Mircea. Mother & son went to Paris, and later she got another big settlement. Carol was soon sent on a trip to Egypt, India and Japan, only to find on his return that his family had picked out for him a beautiful and royal bride-to-be -Helen, sister of George II, the present King of Greece. They were married in 1921, and seven months later Princess Helen gave birth to Mihai...
...long deep trip through the jungle Mrs. Keith, only woman along, had a grim time of it, sitting in boats with her buttocks continuously wet, trying not to lag in the slimy trudging, tattered by leeches and insects, dozing through the drowned nights squatted in bed in a safari tent beneath a blue cotton umbrella while her unconquerable husband slept like...