Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bridge room of Shanghai's American Club, ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman, nine days out of Washington on a quick round-the-world trip, met some 35 foreign and Chinese correspondents last week. Trim and smiling in his double-breasted blue suit, Hoffman tried to be as responsive as possible. Sensibly, at the outset, he cautioned that he had no authority or qualifications to "determine or define" U.S. policy toward China. But, whatever his good intentions, the cautious, sensible-sounding words he then uttered were a kick in the teeth to the tottering Nationalist government and a boost, in effect...
Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoy, 36, and husband Igor, 36, postponed their Christmas trip back to Manhattan from Paris on doctor's orders: the dime-store heiress and her auto-racing fourth husband had come down with nasty common colds...
Bernarr Macfadden, 80, and third wife Jonnie Lee, 43, his bride of eight months, postponed their Christmas trip from wintry Manhattan to Florida's beaches and a second honeymoon: Bernarr was tied up at the office until January...
...Hurry, Hurry!" Our train chuffed into Pengpu, 100 miles above Nanking, at dusk after a seven-hour trip. All along the steel corridor-single track except for station sidings-military traffic flowed heavily. Every railside town and village crawled with soldiers. Dumps of rice and munitions crowded rail platforms and yards. Bridges bristled with mudbrick pillboxes, defensive moats and brushworks...
...Zurich's daily Die Tat, the weekly Die Weltwoche, and his own European feature agency, Dukas. His helper for Vol. i, No. i, was Correspondent Hans Steinitz of the Bern daily Der Bund. They timed their maiden issue to meet Mrs. Jung on her arrival from a European trip. She had wed her husband under protest last spring, feeling that journalism was "all dissension, fear and hate," and Jung had promised to prove that it ain't necessarily...