Word: passport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Mary van Renssalaer Cogswell, plump, blonde Manhattan socialite, accompanied by tall, brunette Mrs. Mabel Satterlee Ingalls, niece of John Pierpont Morgan, managed to enter Soviet Russia last month without a visa. Last week she got out of Bolshevikland without even a passport, sold to Hearst papers the romping diary of her exploits, then spilled her story all over again to every correspondent who would listen. Young men-about-Manhattan sighed. They know "Molly" Cogswell. Acutely they sympathized with Bolshevik males who were unable to withstand her high, burbling, husky wheedle...
Russian frontier guards discovered that chubby Molly Cogswell had no Russian visa on her passport. She, resourceful, wept slightly (to the huge embarrassment of stalwart Mabel Ingalls), timidly proffered her visiting card. The frontier guards relented...
...five o'clock in the morning Mabel was asleep and I went out to take a walk on a station platform. Someone stole my pocket book with all my money, my passport, two crystal bracelets and some samples of window curtains that my mother wanted me to buy in Italy...
...William M. Rogers, Indiana Klansman, had sworn before a Senate committee that upon a trip to Washington in 1926 he had applied to Senator Watson for assistance in getting a Government job, that Senator Watson had proudly exhibited a Klan imperial passport, had claimed high membership in the order...
...visa fee, bane of U. S. travelers abroad, started in 1920 when U. S. consuls were instructed to collect $9, plus $1 for executing the application, from each and every foreigner who wanted a passport visaed. Delighted at finding a new source of revenue, several foreign governments instantly retaliated, charged all U. S. tourists $10 each...