Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to get a picture of 91-year-old Mrs. Trow on Election Day, were refused. When they returned with policemen and broke into the house, they found Mrs. Knox ill in bed, no trace of her mother. Mrs. Knox told the sheriff that her mother was on a trip, that she had hired a woman to impersonate her. She had been collecting her mother's $40 monthly Civil War pension. Pressed, Mrs. Knox said Mrs. Trow had gone to Nebraska with a friend named Ed Roach...
...Empire. On Nov. 20, 1936, Lord Beaverbrook arrived in Manhattan on a trip that was scheduled to take him to Arizona for his asthma. Why, asked ship newsmen, were Beaverbrook's papers sitting on the Edward-Mrs. Simpson story? "Who? Me?" said the Beaver. "I know nothing about Mrs. Simpson." A few hours later he turned around and went back to London, impishly letting it be known that the sea voyage had so benefited him that he might just continue to shuttle back & forth across the Atlantic...
...dialogue-which contains a discussion of Great Britain's defensive policy against aggressor nations-was Sir Robert Yan-sittart, Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Office. *After attending a San Diego preview of Submarine Patrol, Actor Greene last fortnight set off with his valet on a hunting trip in the Kaibab National Forest. When he failed to telephone his mother as he had promised, forest rangers, rail-road agents, and 100 CCC workers, started a search for Actor Greene. Twenty-four hours later, he was discovered at Williams, Ariz...
...course the most obvious alibi is that Dartmouth had to play under weather conditions far different than those at home. To practice in snow storms and zero weather, then make a tiring train trip, and then to play with the thermometer hovering near 70, is not easy. Little wonder that Coach Earl Blaik's line collapsed toward...
Three thousand miles was a long trip for the Dartmouth football team to make. But they were in a sense upholding the honor of the east against a weak coast outfit. This was the third in a series of Dartmouth-Stanford engagements, and on both previous occasions the Easterners came out on the short end of the stick. This time, beaten only once, the Green looked like a sure bet over the six times vanquished coasters...