Word: trippings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain Professor Riley, and that it was vaguely economic. In Tallinn, Estonia, a reporter of the Swedish Aftonbladet credited the mysterious Professor Riley with a startling declaration: "In Britain we are by no means convinced of the vital necessity of Danzig for Poland. . . . The Commission has undertaken its trip under Government inspiration. I'm convinced that the results of our inquiry will have the greatest influence on the future position of Britain with regard to Danzig...
...Many precious weeks spent by the battleship Oregon on the 13,000-mile trip around the Horn during the Spanish-American War-proving to the U. S. the naval necessity of a canal...
When the 1936 Olympics came round, Swimmer Holm was doing pretty well as a night-club singer, with her husband's and other bands. She started her celebrated trip on the S. S. Manhattan on the wrong foot with the U. S. Olympic Committee by trying, unsuccessfully, to pay her own way first class. She spent her time in first class anyway, with newspapermen, taking literally the Committee's instructions to keep the kind of training to which she was accustomed. So the Committee's sober Chairman Avery Brundage threatened to kick her off the team...
With the Snites on the trip to Lourdes went a schoolfriend of Fred's sister, the tall, brunette daughter of a Dayton, Ohio businessman. To forestall comment, she was generally referred to as "Cousin Teresa." Evenings she would sit and converse with Fred's head...
...minutes later with Fred beaming from his 900-lb. iron tank, a priest married them. When newshawks arrived Snite Sr. met them at the gate, told them it was all over, took them in to see the newlyweds, who were about to start on a one-day wedding trip to Wisconsin in Fred's trailer...