Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Margaret's few close friends flocked by to hear about her trip and perhaps persuade her to do a really sharp imitation of some pompous continental dignitary. But before the girlish giggles began, they still remembered to call her "ma'am," for Margaret is the daughter of the King. No matter how seductively the moon may shine as she drives home from a party, there can be no stolen kisses; a Scotland Yard man is always present to see her indoors; often a lady-in-waiting is at the door, too. As one young Briton remarked...
...glum-looking music student from Evanston, Ill. boarded a boat for Paris. She had a round-trip ticket, but was in no hurry to use the return half. Last week Gertrude O'Brady was back in Manhattan, calling up old friends with the invitation: "Come and see me, I've become a painter!" One day in Paris she had had a date with an art critic, and as a joke he had bought her some paints. "I was an absolute backwoods baby," says O'Brady. "I told him I couldn't think what to paint...
Blessed by the U.S. State Department, the trip was inspired and partly financed by wealthy Blevins Davis, patron of the ballet and board member of the American National Theater and Academy. The 26-member troupe, with ANTA Executive Secretary Robert Breen playing Hamlet, was bolstered with some veteran Broadway talent: Aline MacMahon as the Queen, Walter Abel as the King, Clarence Derwent as Polonius. But the production, geared for ten outdoor performances in the castle's great courtyard, was born in Abingdon...
Like father Day in Life With Father, Dad Gilbreth pretty much ran things his way; but there most of the resemblance ended. Whenever Dad Gilbreth, returning from a trip, turned in at the sidewalk of his Montclair, N.J. home, he whistled "assembly call"; it brought freckle-faced kids from upstairs, basement, backyard and even the next street. Sometimes his signal meant that he wanted to take everybody for a ride in the big Pierce-Arrow. "How do you feed all those kids, mister?" folks would yell when the car had to stop for an intersection. His favorite answer: "Well, they...
...road would have frequent cut-outs, none of which would stop traffic. Boston to New York travel would be considerably expedited even though the highway would come little nearer to Boston than Worcester; most autoists who drive to New York regularly agree that the slowest part of the trip is along Routes 15 and 20 from the Worcester Turnpike to the Connecticut line...