Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Coolidge arrived early in the week from a visit at his grandmother's, Mrs. Elmira Goodhue of Northampton, Mass. Another day among the President's callers was one Alberto Salomon, Peruvian, who told of wealth in Peru. The President was impressed with the growing importance of South American countries, expressed the wish that John learn Spanish next year at Amherst...
Viands, wine, cigars and flowers had been ordered. Their Britannic Majesties were prepared to receive in splendor last week a state visit from President Doumergue and Premier Briand of France. M. Doumergue's valet pondered again the advisability of a corset. Bachelor Briand submitted to a deft clipping of his (as usual) too exuberant mop of hair. All was in readiness...
Forthwith, the British Foreign Office issued an announcement: the President of France had postponed his visit because of the political crisis at Paris. Simultaneously all semi-official French news organs carried a statement: the President of France had postponed his visit because of the British Coal Strike...
That Simon Bolivar, long-legged, unruly young Venezuelan aristocrat, after dismaying his provincial tutors, went to study in Madrid, married at 18, returned to Venezuela where his bride died of yellow fever. He foreswore domestic life and plunged-after another visit to Napoleon-dominated Europe and a trip through the U. S.-into the serious business of liberating Central America from the tyranny of its Spanish monarch...
While the echoes of the incident were still resounding in the press, Mr. Brookhart paid a visit to his old stamping ground, Washington, to which he hopes to return next March. He was there, he said, in the interest of farm relief legislation. Availing himself of the privilege of a former Senator, he went into the Senate Chamber, was cordially greeted. He got to talking in one corner with Senators Walsh, Caraway, and Jones (of New Mexico), all Democrats, while Senator Kendrick of Wyoming was making a speech. Something very amusing must have passed among the four, for Senator Caraway...