Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard more than 25,000 boys invade the city of Washington. Their tent cities spread beneath the Washington Monument, over Potomac Park both north and south of the Tidal Basin, across the river on Columbia Island and into the fields below Arlington National Cemetery on the Virginia shore. Everywhere barekneed youngsters in khaki perambulated through the streets with cameras and autograph books. Everywhere rose a babel of youthful voices, in childish versions of the accents of Maine and California, of Wisconsin and Texas. No connoisseur of mob scenes had ever seen such a sight; never before had the Boy Scouts...
...that a good way to begin was a tour of Washington for $5. The couple, who revealed that they were Mr. & Mrs. Francis J. Smith of Watford, England, agreed. During the two-hour trip Carnaggio interspersed his sight-seeing lecture with many a remark about the beauties of nearby Virginia. Upon returning to the hotel he easily sold the Smiths on the idea of a $75 trip through Virginia. Three weeks later the trio turned up in Manhattan, having been to Mt. Vernon, Arlington, Yorktown, Jamestown, Charlottesville, over the Skyline Drive to Gettysburg, Pa., then north through Harrisburg to Montreal...
...capacity of 2,005 cc. (TIME, Oct. 12). This was the largest on record in the Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under the scrutiny of science...
...lobby of the White House Executive Offices in Washington, newshawks stopped chatty, Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, who had just come from a talk with the President, and asked for a "few choice words" on the abdication and marriage of the Duke of Windsor. Chatted the longtime Member of Parliament from Sutton Division, Plymouth: "They'll be very few and very choice, because I'm a politician...
...Night and Day. Some time during these festivities, Franklin and his bride will slip away to board ship for a honeymoon in Europe. Back home this autumn, they will settle down in a five-room cottage at Charlottesville, Va., where Franklin will go to the University of Virginia Law School. If the light-hearted scenario continues as it has begun, they should live happily ever afterward...