Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vines would have promptly driven back to Pasadena (or perhaps on to the national tennis matches at Forest Hills) were it not for the fact that he had taken along a young Southern California tank-town actor named Pat Abbott to keep him company on his trans continental motor trip. Pat Abbott was still in the tournament...
...that he was collaring Freshmen for subscriptions to his paper once more. It made him think of the distant days when he first made the voyage through Mem Hall--learning how to sign his name on the way, signing up for all the periodicals. He remembered his initial trip across the Square, how he had wanted to take a taxi back to the Yard; he recalled the sign he'd put on his door warning solicitors of his full contentment. He signed as he thought of the first time he had heard the sound three trolley cars make when...
Starting at the North a detailed trip over the may will point out spots of particular interest to the Freshman...
Fired by returned immigrants' tales of electric lights, elevators and other such wonders of "Amerikanska tzivilizatzia," little Stoyan pestered his father for passage money, got it by going on strike. He was then 13 years old. His guardian for the trip was a returning naturalized U. S. citizen. In St. Louis, Stoyan lived with an uncle, in an apartment where six countrymen, haggard with overwork and economizing, slept in shifts. They worked in the railroad shop, made $1.50 a day, saved most of it. In a shoe factory Stoyan got $7 a week; room was 50? a month, board...
When his uncle died, Stoyan went to Montana as water boy to a railroad construction gang. He and a friend made the 1,500-mile trip in dilapidated boxcars outfitted as bunkhouses, which whipped over the tracks like a snake, threatening momentarily to fall to pieces. But the Balkan occupants had no qualms at all. If the Chewtobaccos, the big bosses, said they were safe, they must be safe. Their faith in democracy was often demonstrated just as literally. Because a giant worker heard that workers were equal with the rich, he carried a mattress, white sheets, wore silk pajamas...