Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know why South American corned beef was "infinitely better" than that from the U. S. prairies, unless foreign cows are just naturally better tasting than U. S. cows.f If correspondents did not believe him, he said, let them try a can of Argentine beef on their next camping trip...
With him on his trip Jim Farley took along his personal and party publicist, Eddie Roddan, and anotherkey man in the national Democratic machine: Treasurer Oliver Adams Quayle Jr. Everywhere he saw and handshook all manner of men & women-railroad workers, col- lege boys, lady Democrats, postal em-ployes-but especially Democratic county chairmen, the machine's roller bearings. He made safe, resounding speeches on salutary topics...
...Chateau gold-plated microphones were installed for the King's first speech. Towns along the St. Lawrence heaped bonfires, decked railway stations. At Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies in preparation for their trip to Toronto to meet King George and Queen Elizabeth. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (Author John Buchan) collected a library for Their Majesties, books on Canadian life, political works and novels, including a mystery called Blood Royal...
...Elizabeth invited all hands to movie shows of travel films and Walt Disney cartoons, got into a discussion over whether icebergs should be called "he" or "she." On Saturday His Majesty's Surgeon Captain Henry Ellis Yeo White and the Empress' Dr. Joseph Maxwell made an emergency trip to the Glasgow, took out the appendix of a seaman...
...July had secretly decided to offer Czecho-Slovakia on the altar of Appeasement, Viscount Runciman was sent to Prague as an "unofficial mediator" to arrange a "peaceful settlement" to the Sudeten German problem. Lord Runciman was eminently successful. Last week, on his way home from a world-circling vacation trip, he arrived in Montreal, Quebec, was questioned by newshawks on his availability as a mediator in the current Danzig dispute. Cracked light-hearted Lord Runciman: "You wouldn't want me to do that all over again...