Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calvin Coolidge reverted to Calvin Wamblee-Tokaha (Leading Eagle) for a day. At Pine Ridge Indian Agency, 150 miles from Rapid City, S. Dak., he paid the first visit of a U. S. President to an Indian reservation (see next page...
...haughty redskin brothers, to the haughty strong Sioux nation, with his wife and son beside him, with big medicine in his pocket, came the pale-Wamblee-Tokaha,* New White Chief and High Protector-otherwise Calvin Coolidge, 29th U. S. President, but first President ever to visit any Amerindians on one of the reservations set aside for them by their Caucasian conquerors...
...tenth anniversary of the A. E. F.'s appearance on French soil, seriously doubted the wisdom of turning 15,000 Americans loose in a country where Americans had become distinctly unpopular. Was that unpopularity wholly erased -by the stabilization of the French franc, the debt negotiations, the visit of Heroes Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd...
...there is a distinction between the commercial theatre and the art theatre. Both are forms of entertainment, but one provides the audience effortless amusement; the other demands an audience of willing imagination. Reinhardt has surrendered the masses to the movies and incorporated producers. He invites the theatrically devoted to visit his theatre in a spirit of pilgrimage...
...outstanding chapter, flanked as are most of the chapters by appropriate selections from Mr. Noyes's verse, relates for U. S, ears as well as English a visit to the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. Mr. Noyes was there the night the new 100-inch telescope was first put into use. The experience started him writing his blank verse epic of science, The Torchbearers. The U. S.'s high rank in pure science was superbly certified when Astronomer George Ellery Hale called his guests and assistants to be the first humans to witness the rising of one of Jupiter...