Most could now afford cars and maybe the odd trip abroad.
Brennan found her way to New York, where, apart from the odd trip to Ireland, she remained until her death, in 1993.
The main story that eventually emerges from Schickler's often twee vignettes itself comes off as an odd trip back in time.
They did this by attending anarchist book fairs, holding long internal meetings about "the poor" of London, and organising the odd trip to throw stones at tanks in Palestine.
Guests at Pluscarden are expected to comply with this routine, though visiting women can't enter the enclosed areas of the monastery so, apart from cleaning my room and the odd trip to the exercise room, I spent most of my time reading or on long walks along quiet forest tracks.
I'm ashamed of this, but when I worked as a staffer on a magazine, I was cripplingly envious of the fashion and beauty desk who brought in a lot of advertising and as a result, were showered with flowers, jewellery and the odd trip to Paris to make a custom blended perfume.
Yesterday, hostile board members at an eight-hour meeting in New York said Messier could keep the job that keeps him jetting between Paris and Manhattan, with the odd trip to Universal Studios in California's San Fernando Valley.
My family hardly ever went on holiday aside from the odd trip to London for a weekend, meaning that during school holidays I was left bored out of my mind.
Students pay a registration fee of $5 which entitles them to go on any or all of the 100-odd trips arranged for them.
Guided treks are scheduled each day of the week, year round – and every spring and autumn, Jersey Tourism puts on a walking festival, running 40-odd trips, including a round-island route.
He has rollers in Havana make him cigars with Pele de Oro tobacco and, in the 50-odd trips he's taken to Cuba since that drive in the country, he's ordered more and more and has had bands made for them bearing his name.
