Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serene in Moscow. . . . There is no foundation in fact for any of the alarming reports. . . . Russia is one country that welcomes Americans. [Russian] customs officers and passport inspectors . . . are courteous and reasonable . . . a refreshing relief after the meticulous curiosity of the French, German and especially Polish functionaries. . . . There were nine Americans [going to Russia] on the train, and one was accompanied by his wife and son, aged eleven...
...Moulin Rouge, among the music halls, zinc bars, hack stands and sporting houses whose employes and habitues were his models and friends. A few initiates knew that his last name was not Pascin but Pincas. Nobody knew his first name: it was something Bulgarian roughly translated by a French passport official as Jules. Only dealers, critics and reporters ever called him Jules. He always signed his pictures pascin (with a small p). He was known as pascin (pass-kin) to his friends...
After the boundaries had quieted down a peasant found the frontier ran through his house, making his lavatory foreign ground. It would have taken him two weeks, every time, to get his passport visaed...
When my plane crashed, I was not incarcerated. My passport was issued to me, and it reads "For the purpose of making a temporary visit to the United States...
...Constitutional Big Stick" cut from an elm on Lexington Battlefield and to call him one of the three foremost defenders and upholders of Liberty and the Constitution (TIME, Sept. 29). It had furnished him a text for a national radio speech on the sanctity of the U. S. passport and had given his newshawks a standing heckle-question for the State Department: what was the U. S. going to do about the indignity suffered by its great citizen? The State Department up to last week was still replying: Nothing...