Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...message urging his 3,000 employes to "get going" behind President Roosevelt. "Buy something-buy anything-anywhere! Paint your kitchen. Send a telegram. Give a party. Get a car. Pay a bill. Rent a flat. Fix your roof. Get a haircut. See a show. Build a house. Take a trip. Sing a song. Get married," cried the message. Edison employes were handed $5 each, told to 'spur on Recovery by buying something they would not otherwise have bought...
...Saturday morning two years ago, a Packard roadster with the top down started from San Mateo, Calif, for a weekend trip to Aptos. At the car's wheel was its owner, big, blond Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, a star Stanford foot baller ten years ago, now a San Francisco broker. Beside him sat his guest, pert, black-eyed Mrs. Audrey McCann. In the rumble were their spouses-John Mc Cann, of San Francisco's McCann Furniture Co. family, and Claire Hoffman, daughter of San Francisco's famed banker Amadeo Giannini...
...trip was arranged by Jerome D. Greene '96, Director of the Tercentenary, who provided as guides three students who were official Tercentenary guides last summer. The group was welcomed by Greene in the Faculty Room of University Hall and then was taken to visit Wadsworth House, Widener Library, the various assumes, and points of interest about the Yard...
...window, sprang up to repulse the invaders, hurdled through the window. At a Los Angeles hospital surgeons took 40 stitches to close gashes in his left hand and both feet. His wife slept soundly through his nightmare and leap. His greatest regret: having to call off a projected fishing trip...
...South America, traded in cattle and mules, traveled across Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, learned to ride like a Gaucho and usually lived like one. At 27 he married a Chilean, "Gabriella, the daughter of Don Francisco Jose de la Balmondiere," took her on a honeymoon, part of which was a trip by wagon and horseback from San Antonio, Tex. to Mexico City. In 1879 this journey took 50 days and the travelers were in constant danger of Indian attacks. Cunninghame Graham taught fencing in Mexico City, returned to the cattle business in South America, learned when his father died...