Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amherst, December 14: Trains and automobiles cut no ice with two rugged youths from the wilds of Amherst, who are setting out down the Connecticut in a canoe for a round trip to Orient Point, Long Island, next Friday...
...Massachusetts State students yesterday revealed that the purpose of the trip is to determine the feasibility of bringing their girls up to their Winter Carnival in February by canoe. Neither their parents, or the young ladies in question, have been consulted...
...Roosevelt. Came calls for Roosevelts, servants, secretaries. James Roosevelt rang up. A friend of Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned to apologize frantically for being late because she had left theatre tickets at home. Last week, after Manhattan newspapers publicized the number, harassed Mrs. Roosa ordered the telephone disconnected, went on a trip. For hunting duck over baited fields near Charleston, South Carolina, Publisher Nelson Doubleday and friends were fined $450, their ducks sent to a charitable institution. Hunting with his brother Winthrop near Kingsville, Tex., Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was taken ill. Said his doctors...
...summer of 1936 young English Poet Wystan Hugh Auden got a publisher's advance for a trip to Iceland, "to write a book." Forthwith he asked young Irish Poet Louis MacNeice to come along. For several months the two poets toured the fishy, subArctic, volcanic island, sat around in its corrugated-iron farmhouses and dumpish hotels. When their time was up they had written a number of letters in prose and verse, collected a farrago of literate jottings about Iceland's history, culture, landscape, people. These, illustrated by photographs and stitched loosely together into a book, give...
...Author MacNeice does his best work when he is laughing up his Celtic sleeve at the cordial disrespect with which the general run of things inspires him. His letter, Hetty to Nancy, turns a camping trip into a near-masterpiece of burlesquerie, describes, among other things, a pneumatic mattress-"sighing like something out of A. E. Housman;" the three kinds of Central Iceland scenery-"Stones, More Stones, and All Stones;" a tourist party of middle-aged Englishwomen - "with ankles lapping down over their shoes and a puglike expression of factitious enthusiasm combined with the determination...