Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics on the drought trip?" queried a correspondent...
Last week Republican National Chairman John Hamilton, accompanied by a dozen assistants and reporters, boarded a chartered plane in Chicago, set out on a twelve-day trip through 16 States west of the Mississippi. Like a swiftly moving piece upon a checkerboard, the plane zig-zagged across Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and settled down one afternoon last week at Salt Lake City.* Thus the campaign manager of the Presidential nominee who had declared for a sound currency "convertible into gold" arrived in the heart of the silver country...
...Diana Duff Cooper, Lord and Lady Brownlow and Mrs. Evelyn Fitzgerald. Citizens of the Balkans learned with pride that the Royal Party will board the Nahlin in Yugoslavian waters, cruise to Greece where conditions are ripe for another revolution, finally cruise around the Italian boot on a "Good Will Trip" symbolic of post-Sanctions peace between Imperial Britain and newly Imperial Italy...
...going to be the first U. S. Senator to drive his own car down the new Pan-American Highway to Mexico City & back," boasted North Carolina's Senator Robert Rice Reynolds last month. Last week, on a side trip from Mexico, D. F., Driver Reynolds became the first U. S. Senator to be cleaned out by bandits. Stopped by a traffic jam, Senator Reynold was approached by several Mexicans. His story: "They were not abusive, only businesslike. I thought they were merely customs officials. When one of them took off my wrist watch and pocketed it, I realized they...
Last year, with Africa Dances, Geoffrey Gorer wrote an unusual travel book based on a trip he had taken through West Africa with an educated Parisian Negro who was doing research on the dances of blackamoor tribes. The book was notable for its blunt and sometimes angry descriptions of the consequences of bad administration on the natives, as well as for its account of some of the extraordinary ritual dances that Gorer witnessed. It contained a few passages on native magic that suggested the author possessed a streak of mysticism that he had difficulty in communicating...