Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lest the miracle be doubted, the Berlin Acht Uhr Abenblatt published photographs showing Edward of Wales at every state of his triumphant "surprise visit" to Berlin. The paper sold fast on the boulevards, and few readers turned to the last sentence of the story on an inside page which read: "April Fool...
...Paul Claudel, the French Ambassador to the United States, will visit Harvard, today, it was announced last night. Monsieur Claudel, who has been in this country for some time arrived in Boston yesterday...
Approval was given to the visit of the 150-pound crew at Kent School for the first three days of the spring recess. The stay in Connecticut will close with an informal race with the schoolboy crew on April...
...themselves to feed her and entertain her. But today, while Socialists control many a public purse string, the royal gambols are distinctly gambles. Only after long haggling did the City Council of Glasgow decide, by a lean majority, to entertain the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress on their summer visit (TIME, Feb. 28). But the Socialists continued to fight and last week the Council reversed itself, voting, 25 to 11, that there will be no luncheon at public expense for Their Majesties. Tactful, George, V & Mary will dine privately with the Lord Provost of Glasgow on July...
...until after a long campaign against smut-writers and publishers that he turned his eye to the devilments of the quack doctors and abortionists. It was his practice to write under a false address, or disguised, to pay a visit to these evildoers. This led to mistakes but the method was not without value. It was Anthony Cornstock who decoyed the notorious Madame Restell to jail and then drove her to kill herself. When he heard of the latter event, the reformer said, "A bloody ending to a bloody life." While he was not alone in his campaigns, few associates...