Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange then spirits are reduced to such phenomena as these to leave word that they have called on their friends. In this case, however, "Walter", was evidently making a social visit and nothing score. He brought flowers, and therefore waited for some time before he made up his mind that there was no one at home, at last, pulling out his ghostly watch--the clock idea is absurd--he went reluctantly away, slipping his fingerprint under the door...
...probably at Ispahan, it was used in the palace of one of the Safidian monarchs and was later presented to Peter the Great of Russia. In 1698, Peter, wishing to express his appreciation of the hospitality of Leopold I, Emperor of Austria, to whom he had paid a visit presented it to his host, and for many years it hung on the walls of the great staircase of the Imperial Palace at Schorbrunn. It was recently sold in London to an American purchaser...
...Rube" Goldberg, famed cartoonist: "At the invitation of a New York newspaper (the Post), I went with a common reporter to visit a 'needy case.' We visited a one-time housepainter, paralyzed by paint (lead) fumes, and his wife, who was fighting to keep him from being sent to a poorhouse. In their kitchen all I could find was a loaf of bread, a small sack of flour, two bottles, one of medicine, one of sleeping fluid. Said I: 'I feel sort of rotten, riding away from here in my Minerva. After leaving them, you know...
...Times reporter, and trundled her home amid a short-hand account of her boundless gratitude to all the super-generous publicists concerned? What did they think of the St. Paul Pioneer Press which published a full-page self-advertisement to the effect that it was entirely responsible for the visit of Santy Claus to St. Paul this year? What did they think of 10,000 salesmen of everything from hairnets to pig iron who circularized their "prospects" with spurious store-bought rhymes about "sincere friendship" and "peace on earth...
...presumptuous folly of children judging their parents. Galahad not only vexed Lance lot but naturally embarrassed him greatly in the early days, before Guinevere's first blind jealousy abated. She would not listen to Lancelot's story, honest as the day, of how on his very first visit to King Pelles, that old stickler's bold-spirited daughter had offered her self to him as wife or mistress, she cared not which, in frank passion for his sombre scars, grace and fortitude; how upon his next visit, when he went reluctantly at his liege's bidding...