Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lose his whole means of earning money within a few days. The greater a man is, the sooner he may fall. And great men, especially in athletics are just curiosities. The public wants to see them once, and that's usually all. We may take grange's recent visit to Boston as a good example of that. Bill Tilden and Jack Dempsey had no success in the movies, and neither will Grange, unless he should prove to be an exceptionally good actor...
...Word came from Plymouth, Vt., that the county commissioners in that neighborhood have regularly employed snow plows to keep clear the road from Ludlow to that town, so that if the President should decide at any time to visit his father, ill at Plymouth, there would be no chance of the Presidential automobile being ensnowed between the station and the homestead...
Despatches reported last week that the Prince of Wales allowed his finger prints to be taken on the occasion of his visit to Scotland Yard. Sir William Horwood, the Commissioner, was quoted: "If I may say so, the lines upon your Royal Highness' thumbs present a quite unusual formation...
...have been accused of all sorts of indecencies for making the visit, and the chief of the sect instead of thanking me for attempting to free her from her evil spirits, turned her congregation against...
...might rather like to talk with her, might find her rather charming--far more so than the literary occupant of the brass bed found her book. Butterfly amours on damasque lawns beneath fragile moons, center stage, are likely to pall at times, especially when there are David Copperfields to visit with as the London Mail swings down the Dover Road...