Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wisest Vienna gossips were all repeating the same story: Weeks of excited shouting that Adolf Hitler was preparing another armed coup in Austria had finally roused Great Britain. Sir Austen Chamberlain, accompanied by Lord & Lady Astor, was in Vienna officially on a vacation trip. To informed observers, however, it was heavily significant that the Bourbon wedding was the chance of a lifetime to confer with all Austria's leading royalists at once. Sir Austen was supposed to have brought word from London that as a last resort against a Nazi Putsch in Austria, Britain was ready to back...
...German junket explains Mr. Hearst's subsequent journalistic forays against pinko professors at Syracuse, Chicago, Columbia and New York Universities. "One of the first lessons he had learned from his German mentor was the importance of terrorizing the faculties of colleges and universities."-Carlson & Bates. "Since his German trip, Hearst has been very preoccupied with students."- Lundberg...
...Editor Ethridge took a trip abroad at the expense of the Oberlaender Trust, a fund to provide German junkets for influential Americans. On his return, he took over the flabby old Washington Post. Six months later he was on his way to Richmond and the Times-Dispatch, soon raised its circulation 10%. Made president & publisher, Mark Ethridge seemed content until the Courier-Journal lured him away with a reputed $25,000 a year...
After a two-week layoff since the southern trip, the Harvard Varsity tennis team will oppose the Amherst netmen this afternoon on the Divinity field courts. The Crimson were defeated by Pennsylvania, 6 to 3, in the opening match in the southland, but whitewashed Navy, 9 to 0, in the second...
Because his undergraduate idol, "Copey" (Professor Charles Townsend Copeland) told him he must "see life" if he wanted to write. Reed made his first trip to Europe on a cattle-boat, then discovered that Paris was the greatest place in the world. Back in Manhattan, Lincoln Steffens got him a job on the American Magazine. Soon it began to look like Harvard all over again. He was taken into the Dutch Treat Club, was spoken of as a coming man by many a highly-paid hack. He was taken in by Mabel Dodge, whose Fifth Avenue salon was then running...