Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME reported a farewell conversation between the King and the Duchess of York and quoted the King as referring to her as "the future Queen of England." I don't recall the exact occasion but it was either at a departure of Edward from London on a long trip or the departure of the Duchess of York from London with her husband and Edward bidding them goodby...
...Roosevelt made the 12,000-mi. Buenos Aires round trip in unaccustomed and unexpected obscurity on the inside pages of even the most earnest U. S. dailies while their most prominent news columns and largest headlines went to the Woman of the Year (see col. 3). The President was more than ever the Man of the Year of the Americas, and his happy appearance on the Buenos Aires scene was enough to reap millions of responsive Latin smiles. After he sailed home, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, by his courtly modesty and winning character, achieved more than the State Department...
...transcontinental motor trip to Hollywood, Gladys Cecil Georgina Lady Guernsey, mother of the cinemastruck Earl of Aylesford, paused at Dallas, had 18 pairs of shoes, four suitcases full of clothes and two sable wraps worth $25,000 stolen from her parked...
...confusion in the New England colonies that followed the restoration of Charles II, the masterly diplomacy that saved them from punishment for their support of Cromwell. In 1643, Roger Williams had sold his trading house in Narragansett, which earned him ?100 annually, to raise money for a trip to England, where he wrote an influential pamphlet, served Cromwell, was rewarded with a charter that enabled him to come home and depose wealthy Rhode Island colonists planning a coup d'etat. After the Restoration, Rhode Island promptly hailed the King, raised ?200 to send an emissary to negotiate...
Difficult as it is for Renée to understand these monomaniacs, her trials are increased when her husband deserts in an effort to rejoin her. Just why Captain Pierre chooses this difficult way of getting back to France. Author Hutchinson does not make clear, but the trip involves disguising himself as a monk, a corpse, a laborer. By the time Pierre reaches France the Germans are advancing. He joins the army, deserts again when near his home, is arrested, recognized by a brother officer, released, swept up in the retreat, reaches Renée just ahead of the German...