Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sacco & Vanzetti as from 1894 to 1906 he was the centre of the Dreyfus Case. This case in many ways paralleled the Sacco-Vanzetti case, though to the present generation of U. S. newspaper readers it is hardly more than a name. Many who read the announcement of Dreyfus' visit were surprised to find that the hero of the Dreyfus Case was still alive and active...
...only regret is that I cannot stay longer. It was difficult to get away. His Majesty was good enough to let me get out of the country for this visit and the time of my stay has been stretched to seventeen days...
...last week from London came gossipy reports of the jokes he told during his recent visit there. Once a Negro preacher introduced him to his Negro congregation as "a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." Once a woman parishioner, disagreeing with him, shouted angrily: "I am a Christian woman which it is evident...
...year-old daughter Inez, last week wrote Nicola Sacco, condemned to die during the week of August 10. To the child whom he has seen only on her visits to his cell he said: "It was the greatest treasure and sweetness in my struggling life that I could have lived with you and your brother, Dante, and your mother on a neat little farm and learn all your sincere words and tender affection. The same I have wished and love to see for other poor girls and their brothers happy with the mother and father as I dreamed...
...music of every man's sorrow, Schubert, the gentle, preferred a lyrical opiate. Where Beethoven, the Master, died amidst reverence in a thunderstorm, Schubert, the unknown, passed away in ignominy. It is said that they met on one occasion when Schubert, struggling against shyness, made bold to visit the leonine Beethoven. Beethoven, as was his custom, received all visitors with overwhelming cere mony. Schubert was awed by the torrential welcome and when Beethoven, on glancing over some variations dedicated to him by the tim id visitor, appeared to be amazed by what he saw, the panic-stricken composer fled...