Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ardent winter sports fan, Princess Fawziya reportedly fell in love with the Crown Prince during a holiday trip to Switzerland two years ago. Like modern-minded young Queen Farida she wears the veil, in deference to Moslem custom, but lets it hang loosely about her neck...
Gradually Martha Dodd got over her Nazi measles, and by the time of the Purge (1934), she was even more violently anti-Nazi than her father. A trip to Russia, on which she never once removed her rose-colored spectacles, confirmed her in the anti-faith. She describes horrific tortures inflicted on concentration-camp prisoners ("a few I know of directly"), thinks "there is still a good deal of organized opposition among the people in Germany...
Author Binns, himself a descendant of an Oregon Trailer, centres his story on a family of Illinois farmers who made the trip in 1852. His characters are plain folk, not fancy Indian-fighters and adventurers. His Indians are mostly beggars and hangers-on, a menace only to horses, cows and the pioneers' imaginations. The real enemies are cholera, diarrhea, dust, heat, rivers, white bandits, traders, quarreling among themselves. Out of jealousy, the caravan captain ruthlessly abandons a middleaged, kindly schoolteacher in the desert. But he is efficient, and he does not, like many another captain, abandon women...
...Fesler's Varsity hoopmen are due for another tough evening when they move into the Palestra at Philadelphia tonight to tangle with a rapidly improving Quaker quintet. An ordinary Pennsylvania team would be enough to trip the anaemic Feslermen this year, but those Red and Blue cagers are really on the way up to a contending position...
...Crimson sextet, somewhat worn down by this week's Canadian trip, left early yesterday afternoon in order to get a good night's sleep before tonight's tilt. Both games on Canadian ice, the 7 to 5 win over Montreal on Tuesday and the 13 to 6 defeat at the hands of McGill on Wednesday were hectic battles, and tonight's clash at Princeton will finish up the toughest two weeks of competition that the Hoddermen have had this season...