Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press these explanations of the advent of the most potent Catholic prelate ever to take ship for New York were decidedly inadequate. Only a visit from His Holiness himself could be of greater import to U. S. Catholics. To make sense of Cardinal Pacelli's trip, secular gossips worked overtime, evolved several theories: The Cardinal, perhaps, was being dispatched to Washington to negotiate a resumption of diplomatic relations between the U. S. and the Vatican, breached in 1867 when Congress, foreseeing the end of the Papal State's temporal power, stopped appropriating money to maintain a minister...
...times the airship Hindenburg flew the Atlantic. Two Lufthansa flying boats made the trip twice. Beryl Clutterbuck Markham accomplished the hard East-to-West passage solo. Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill went over and back. Meantime the Blixen-Bjorkvall Bellanca, loaded with ping-pong balls like Harry Richman's Lady Peace, never left the ground. Its take-off for Stockholm was constantly postponed, apparently because the pair were finicky about the weather. This did not bother Baroness Blixen-Finecke. The blonde noblewoman was having so much fun partying on Long Island that she could not find time...
...Fort Wayne, where a turntable was turned, engineers posed and various locomotives were arrayed with placards explaining size, name, power, type, use. At each stop there were lectures by guides in overalls and white gauntlets. Other amusements consisted of a World Series broadcast, bridge games, an accordion player. Next trip is scheduled...
...middle, sealed the doors, plastered the outside with placards screaming EXPLOSIVES! The car was then coupled to a regular freight train, rolled north to Poughkeepsie. No freight train was available to carry the car on to Stanfordville, so it was coupled to an engine which made a special trip 15 miles up a little used line to Stanfordville. Obliging du Pont charged Dr. Ernst $1 for delivery...
...stopped to put imported gasoline into his car and imported mineral water down his own throat, Count Brivio took the lead. Nuvolari, on his way again long before anyone else could catch up, took it back after the next lap, kept it to the end. After his 75th trip around the four-mile course - at 150 m.p.h. down the straightaway, less than 40 m.p.h. around the hairpin turns, for a 66 m.p.h. average - he waved to the judges and slowed down. While France's Jean Wimille in a Bugatti passed Count Brivio, whose motor had overheated on the last...