Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry Micajah Daugherty, then Attorney General, had gone to visit President Harding at the White House. In his apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel, his private secretary heard a shot and a crash. Jesse Smith, a diabetes sufferer, Mr. Daugherty's man Friday, who had a desk but no official position in the Department of Justice, was found dead in the next room. A pistol lay on the floor beside him. He was pronounced a suicide. He had enjoyed life; why had he left it? Washington people said that ill health and imminent scandal had burdened his mind...
Newspaper headlines, ferryboat rides, a visit to her photographer's studio, the radio craze, furnish young Miss Crane with themes for her quaint, circumloquacious cadenzas. She puts pinions on tortoises and sapphires in the eyes of moles. She writes a "Ballad of Valley Forge," and a fine ballad it is, to the tune of "The Eagles They Fly High in Mobile, in Mobile" (or "Drink Her Down"). And sometimes she contemplates the purely inane, just for fun- The ritual and the microtome...
...Rabindranath Tagore, Indian mystic: "Homing from Europe, I passed last week through Athens. I did not visit the hill-crowning Parthenon. I remained at the villa of a German friend, eating candy...
...scheduled the Banjo, Mandolin and Vocal Clubs, and the Gold Coast Orchestra will contribute to the program which will be the same in every concert. A comprehensive series of entertainment has been arranged for the University players themselves by their hosts in the various cities which they will visit...
...will never support Carol if he seeks to obtain power by force of the army. Carol must ask the King's permission to visit him. He must also leave the woman with whom he lives immorally, free himself from his environment in Paris and return to his legal wife and son. Princess Helene lives only for her child, and is highly respected by the whole people...