Word: trips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been led astray, debauched. Ruth Snyder, the wife, was professing horror and penitence, calling her paramour a low "jackal." Also there was even a child, Lorraine Snyder, aged 9, to heighten the emotionalism of the trial. Lorraine still believed her father and mother were temporarily away "on a trip...
...former happening, which look us to the heights of expectant excitement only to let us down quite too suddenly after all was to see someone off on a trip to Europe. At this season of the year with the so-called spring fever attacking everyone, to put foot within an "ocean greyhound", a "floating metropolis" or what not is enough to cause even the most stolid to think twice before deciding definitely not to stow away. The writing of this little tribute to insanity and mental vagrancy is fairly definite proof that no such glorious prank was played...
Upon these hotels workmen were plastering furiously last week, tacking shingles like a swarm of mad woodpeckers. Some two score homes stood finished, furnished and occupied; but civil servants mostly slept at hotels after their 429-mile trip from Melbourne. Like barnyard fowls unused to migrating, which have suddenly been shooed from one coop into another, the employes of the Commonwealth of Australia were cackling many a minor protest last week; but the approach of a royal personage stilled all complaints...
...London, taxicab No. Y L 6636 supplies two services, unique in the world, its driver, William Lucas, modestly believes: 1) a clock that works; 2) free cigarets and matches. Old Mr. Lucas states that his clients never take more than two cigarets a trip. Cigarets are changed daily, each day a new brand. A tobacco firm asked the driver if he would use their brand as an advertisement; was refused...
Since its game a week ago, which was won 5-1, the squad has been scrimmaging every day in preparation for this game and its southern trip next week...