Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is nothing more discouraging to slaving students, especially in the larger halls, to see a little knot of proctors standing in a corner of the room after the books have been given out rehearsing together their last week-end on the North Shore or trip to Revere for the roller-coaster. This sort of proctorial whispering, even though it may be a dull job to loaf about for three hours watching others pour out their heart's blood, is clearly a breach of trust. Memorial Hall, where it is possible to congregate beside the blackboards at the entrance...
...pink sheet "not for publication." Recently this pink sheet quoted a partly identified business executive as talking bloodthirstily about a White House assassination. Quoting "a New York specialist," the pink sheet, in another issue, had described the President's Southern fishing jaunt as a disguised health trip necessitated by his being found in the coma of a dread disease. The purport of these quotations being outrageously untrue, libelous and incendiary, the White House did not wish to dignify them by denial but put the case of the McClure Syndicate up to the Washington news fraternity to deal with...
...Paris (Paramount) mine the photographically rich vein of winter sports which, extensively explored by European producers, has heretofore been neglected by Hollywood. On her first trip abroad, in flight from a tedious suitor in New York, Fashion Designer Kay Denham (Claudette Colbert) picks up two personable Americans in a Paris bar. One is Gene Anders (Robert Young) who hoping to gratify his inclination for casual romance, suggests a trip to Switzerland. The other is his friend George Potter (Melvyn Douglas) who, also in love with Kay and aware that Gene already has a wife, joins the junket as chaperon...
Louis Alexandre Taschereau, 70, for 16 years Premier of Quebec, ousted last year (TIME, June 22). narrowly escaped drowning when his boat tipped over during a fishing trip in Northern Quebec. Clinging to his upsidedown craft until he had removed his mackinaw and high boots, he swam ashore...
Next day the Cavalier flew back to Bermuda and the Bermuda Clipper flew to Baltimore to test the transatlantic air base now abuilding there. Passenger service is promised this month. Round-trip fare will probably be about twice that of a steamer ticket...