Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hypothetical Bill Smith last week arrived in the hypothetical town of Zenith on a business trip. He marched through its marble-lined railroad station, climbed into a shiny taxicab, rode up Zenith's Main Street, admiring a handsome museum, four handsome churches, a dozen glittering drug stores. After he had dined on excellent roast beef in his hotel, Bill Smith lit a cigar and strolled out to a cinema, making up his mind on the way that he would tell his wife Zenith was a "great town...
...notable feature of Dr. Rice's last trip in 1935, was the very successful use of airplane photography to record the geological and botanical characteristics of the region...
...festivities themselves, several thousand persons visited Cambridge, and were escorted by undergraduates through almost all the college buildings. Although these undergraduate guides gave interesting, well-informed lectures on the various Houses, the Law School buildings, and the old edifices in the Yard, the most popular tour was always the trip to see the glass flowers in the Peabody Museum. Both the young and the old from all parts of the country had heard of these famous imitation flowers, and usually expressed a desire to see them before anything else...
...present, because Pianist Hofmann had felt she was now too feeble to make her first transatlantic trip in 50 years, was his 87-year-old mother. For her, the pianist arranged that the whole Jubilee concert should be recorded. Also not present, to his regret, was the most celebrated member of the honorary, specially-formed "Hofmann Fifty-Year Club" of people who had heard the prodigy during his first months in the U. S. Franklin D. Roosevelt (six years younger than Josef Hofmann) was taken by his mother to hear Hofmann play in 1887, and, as Dr. Damrosch said gracefully...
Most elaborate of the dance sequences is hoofed by Astaire, Burns & Allen at a country fair. After trying their fantastic toes on turntables, rolling barrels, slippery slides, the trio trip into the magic mirror room, become stumpy, stilted, wide & narrow by turns. The climax is a mirror that clips them off, leaving only disembodied dancing legs. Reginald Gardiner, whose stage repertory includes imitations of ugly wallpaper, effeminate French railway trains, weltering bell buoys, contributes one soul-bursting scene as an aria-minded butler tossing inhibition to the wood winds and singing a tenor solo from the opera Martha...