Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newshawks began guessing twice as hard when on his week-end yachting trip he was joined by Governor Murphy of Michigan who flew to join him on the Presidential yacht. On the endless list of Court possibilities drawn up by the quidnuncs of the press, the name of Frank Murphy stood beside such others as Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Federal Judges Sam Gilbert Bratton (onetime U. S. Senator from New Mexico), Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Houston, Texas, Florence Allen of Columbus, Law Professors Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, Lloyd Garrison of Wisconsin...
...driver's negligence, but limit non-paying passenger or guest recoveries to cases where the driver was grossly negligent or drunk. In both Walker v. Adamson and McCann v. Hoffman et al, the injured passengers had shared or were expected to share in the expenses of the trip. But, said California's Supreme Court, where the parties are ''engaged on a business venture for their mutual advantage," then sharing expenses makes a guest a paying passenger; whereas, when the main purpose of the auto trip is the joint pleasure of the participants, passengers are merely guests...
...Barinquen docked with the solenodons, one male had died. Remaining were a male, a female and a baby. Captain Ronald Cheyne-Stout, Director of the Zoo picked up his three bedraggled specimens and rushed them to Central Park Zoo, clapping the mother into the hospital to recover from her trip...
...engine. On her maiden voyage she encountered a rival boat of the Stonington Line, the Oregon, and in the race that ensued, the Bay State not only passed the other ship easily but added insult by crossing her bow. The Bay State could make the New York-Fall River trip in eleven hours, burning 44 tons of coal. In 1854 she yielded the speed crown to the Metropolis. According to one historian, when the Metropolis was under way "the disturbance in the water through which she was passing was such as to give the appearance of her pushing the whole...
Back in England after a trip around the world, with a stopover in the U. S., Christopher poses as one of the Cumberland conspirators to worm his way into their headquarters in a remote Welsh castle. There unexpectedly he meets the Duke of Cumberland, a fiendish Frenchwoman who turns out to be his grandmother, and his father, who finally divulges the facts about Christopher's parentage, which "is both better and worse than the reader thought. In chains after making mincemeat of two burly guards, dreamy six-foot Christopher defies his captors to do their worst, says he means...