Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have traveled in almost every Latin-American country, and I know that $10 worth of increased prestige for our country can be reaped for every dollar sown in providing better living and traveling quarters for our President and for his Ambassadors in foreign lands. As matters stand, foreigners visit Washington and then go home to tell their countrymen that our President lives like what Sinclair Lewis calls a "babbitt." I have heard "babbitt" picked up and used in this connection by foreigners several times. Do we want that to continue? HERBERT MILTON MAXWELL...
Nothing was the matter with 19-year-old John Webb. He felt fine, had good appetite, was merely taking his 612-lb. self to visit friends in Hackensack...
...Harbin, Manchuria, an Associated Press correspondent last week cabled excerpts from the announcements of a benefit performance in a leading Harbin restaurant. The performance was entitled: "Exclusive and only visit of the world-famous circus eccentrion...
Both men, the citizenry decided, were admirable fellows. Therefore, crowds cheered Edward of Wales when he arrived from London to visit the Spanish Royal Family; and still greater crowds throated lustily when Nicanor Villalta, slayer of 800 bulls, returned from Mexico, bearing that chief prize of the American bull ring, a bauble known as "The Golden Ears of Mexico...
...purpose of his visit to the U. S. he explained, was to perform a manipulative operation on "a prominent man ... as prominent as Coolidge...