Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nature of exaggerated damage estimates, reported last week that more than 1,300,000 acres cannot produce a crop this summer; that in 20 counties of "drowned land" the Red Cross would have to feed and clothe the refugees for many months to come. Mr. Hoover is expected to visit President Coolidge at Custer Park in the latter part of July and at that time will presumably bring conditions to the President's attention...
...like TIME very much. I was very much amused in a statement that you made in TIME several months ago, which was: "Virginia's chief industries are female academies." I take it for granted that you have never been to Va. or heard mention of that state. Please visit us or look it up and correct your statement in an early issue of TIME. If you do, we will excuse you this time...
...Rapid City danced about 96°. Even the trout stopped biting, and, though the President made no complaint of the heat, he discarded his coat and sat shirt-sleeved on the State Lodge porch. From the heat waves rose rumors, unconfirmed, that the President might shorten his western visit, leave for the East about the middle of August, spend a few weeks in Vermont before returning to Washington...
Meanwhile, not all U. S. hearts still throbbed as one in affection for Colonel Lindbergh. At Dayton, Ohio, rancor still dwelt among the populace whom the flyer last fortnight "affronted" by driving through Dayton's back streets to visit Orville Wright, ancestor of aviation. Though Colonel Lindbergh had repeatedly explained his visit was wholly "unofficial" and had begged that there be no Dayton speeches or parade, eminent Daytonians were chagrined beyond gracefulness. Last week they were still bitterly quoting their police chief's description of the Lindbergh tactics: "a dirty, back-alley trick." Mayor Allen C. McDonald...
...plays opened in Manhattan last week. This is the dull season, when actors appear in Chautauqua, visit friends at the seashore, toil in stock companies, or sail for Europe. But the week was not without theatrical news of interest...