Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another woman pointed out to enthusiasts the desirability of a 30-hour week. "Why not?" she said. "If there is anything you want the union will give it to you." Advantages gained by membership in the group may well provide opportunities for a trip to the Cape, "or perhaps to England or Ireland where your ancestors came from...
...realize that you will undoubtedly receive numerous letters expressing both amazement and doubt as to the overland trip from Colombia to Panama through this comparatively unexplored and almost impenetrable jungle. We, therefore, take this opportunity to reassure all such scribes. We have records to show that the pack train was serviced all the way with axle grease and the latest in horse shoes by our service stations, which same extend in an unbroken chain all the way from the Colombian border to Panama City (?). No doubt but that the trail blazed by Señor Divo is the forerunner...
...wake up and start courting in his own way Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid.* Completely eluding news gossips who kept marrying him off to other princesses, Leopold would set out from Brussels traveling third class and carrying a small satchel as if going only for a short trip, would arrive at a country station in southeastern Sweden to be met by nobody and walk off with his satchel up to the rambling country house of his prospective Swedish father-in-law. In the nine years of Astrid's married life she gave Belgium three royal children: Princess Josephine Charlotte...
That was in 1831 and the trip was intended as no more than a temporary visit. It turned out to be a permanent exile. In Paris he met his odd mate, Mathilde Mirat ("the loving creature, who has been at my side and with whom I have been quarreling every day for the last six years"). And there he plunged into the quasi-Bohemian, quasi-revolutionary circles with which Paris was awhirl in the days of the Commune. Heine made German enemies by his polemical bitterness, French friends by his personal charm, contributed briefly to a radical weekly edited...
...loss was attributed immediately to the appearance of the bulldog, but Ducky Pond, Yale's football coach, took him over and except for one trip away, has been the defender of Ducky's back-yard ever since...