Word: visaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dadaist Duchamp's account of his own flight sounded like a whimsically eventful Cook's tour. He said he posed as a cheese merchant, got out of Occupied France without any trouble at all, finally got a U.S. visa in Marseille on the strength of an affidavit from a friend in Hollywood (Author Walter Conrad Arensburg, who bought his Nude Descending...
After escaping the grasping tentacles of the Gestapo in Poland, Lednicki became an aid of the Polish government in exile at Anjou in France and was in Paris when Marshal Potain announced the Armistice in June 1940. Securing a transit visa from a kind French official he journeyed to Lisbon, where he received an American visa and came here to assume a post offered him by Harvard...
After waiting two years for a United States visa, de Hoffman sailed on a small freighter in the middle of a British convoy. "When attacked for the first time," he related, "we were some 300 miles off the coast of Western Ireland on a fairly clear night...
There was little likelihood that Carol's ambitions toward the Regency would be taken seriously. He was repudiated by Rumanian refugee groups in both Washington and London. Washington rumor said he had been advised not to apply for a U.S. visa...
...easy last week to get a French colonial tourist visa on your Danish, Dutch or even German passport. The best of Vichy contacts would not get one for U.S. citizens or British subjects...