Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been working hard with Congress and now, upon its adjournment, he was going home. His physician had advised him to take a long summer's rest, to camp and fish in the open, to fill his lungs with fresh Pacific air. As he started on his transcontinental motor trip, he might easily have been mistaken for a successful doctor or a famed lawyer. But he was neither. He was Clarence True Wilson, A. B., B. D., Ph. B., D. D., LL. D., executive secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a power...
...other aviator-automobilists, Round-the-World-Flyers Leigh Wade amd Linton Wells, made a non-stop Packard trip from Los Angeles to New York...
...Rockefeller's prizes: A three-day trip to Washington, including a presidential handshake, for Marion Boyd and companion...
...Bishop and Miss Wills played tennis together last month while she was in England to be presented at Court. It was not, however, to play him a return match that she had returned. It was Wimbledon time. The Bishop, like many another distinguished oldster, began making the 15-minute trip out to the new stadium to watch the players practice and then begin to play for the highest titles the tennis world holds...
Chief Justice William Howard Taft, cheery, straw-hatted, but looking thin, was pushed through Washington's Union Station last week in a wheelchair, on his way to his summer home in Murray Bay, Canada. Mrs. Taft kept him company in another wheelchair. Exhausted by a trip to Cincinnati and back, fearing recurrence of an old bladder ailment, Mr. Chief Justice had been hospitalized for five days, examined, rested, reported sound. Starting north, however, he avoided exertion...