Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Percival Phillips is on the staff of the London Daily Telegraph and has been for some time. It was for this paper, which I represent in the U. S., that he reported the maiden trip of the Queen Mary and it is on behalf of the Daily Telegraph that he is attending the Republican and Democratic Conventions at Cleveland and Philadelphia respectively...
...special train, President Roosevelt rolled out of Washington one midnight last week for a 4,000-mile swing through the Southwest. With him were Senator Joe Robinson, RFChairman Jesse Jones, Senator Hattie Caraway. Mrs. Roosevelt was to board the train at Memphis. Announced purpose of this "nonpolitical" trip was to attend and make speeches at three historical celebrations-Arkansas' Century of Statehood at Little Rock, the Texas Centennial at Dallas, the dedication of a memorial to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes...
...said Franklin Roosevelt last week at Little Rock, Ark. and he devoted the better part of his week to detailing his reflections. Month ago when the Press described his trip as his first campaign tour he retorted that his speeches would be historical. Historical they were, each picking an ancient example to point a New Deal moral. Thus by laying the foundation of his campaign upon the stones of history, he strove to answer the Republican contention that the New Deal is perverting the traditional institutions of the U. S. His historical fables at Little Rock, Dallas, Vincennes...
...good copy for a book. Getting to Patagonia was exciting in itself. They were the only passengers on the freighter that took them from Los Angeles down around South America, and after riding out a hurricane, through the sinister Straits of Magellan. Once ashore, they had a long, hard trip by truck and horseback to get to the mountain sheep-ranch they were heading for, almost on the border between Argentina and Chile. The man they sought was known variously as "El Jimmy," "El Gringo Malo" or "El Ingles." Native of a Berkshire village who had come to Patagonia after...
RETURN TO COOLAMI-Eleanor Dark- Macmillan ($2.50). Author Dark makes conservative use of the stream-of- consciousness technique in a carefully manipulated account of a two-day motor trip in Australia, during which a serious marital tangle is straightened...